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Grandma's Stories
A king tried a lime kiln, poison, an elephant and the sea. The old man sang through all four.
Appar was born into a Shaiva family, and as a young man he left it.
He went to a Jain monastery. And he was not a half-hearted Jain. He studied hard and rose high, and they thought a great deal of him.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.