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They tell this story in the village below the hill. In the years I have carried this story, it has grown a little at the edges, the way stories always do. The heart of it has remained unchanged, however, in spite of a whole millennium and a half that has passed since the time of our protagonist. Those were the days when kings ruled in Valluvanad and the Bharathapuzha ran fuller than it does now. A Brahmin scholar named Vararuchi was counted among the nine gems of King Vikramaditya’s...
