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Grandma's Stories
He carried an axe for one purpose: to use on anyone who interfered with a devotee. One morning the offender was the king's elephant.
Eripatha of Karuvur went about armed.
Not for himself. He had decided that if anybody harmed a devotee of Shiva, he would deal with it, and he carried an axe so that he could.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.