Fables and Folk Tales, from an Eastern Forest
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ISBN13: 9780217833615
Paperback|9780217833615
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE SAINTS WHOSE GRAVE-STONES MOVED. TO' Panjang or Father Lanky (as he is generally called) was one of the earliest apostles of Islam in the State of Patani and enjoyed a great reputation. At length however Sah Nyaya the Unjust King came to the throne and requested To' Panjang to assist in casting some cannon, the copper being placed in his charge for the purpose. But one day a foreign merchant came to visit him and begged for a portion of the copper, which the Saint gave him, intending no harm thereby. Taxed by the Raja with stealing his copper, To' Panjang admitted his mistake and was condemned to die the death. A pupil of his own was chosen to execute the sentence, but refused to do so, whereuponboth master and pupil were strangled1 and their bodies thrown into the Patani River, which then escaped to the sea in the neighbourhood of Jambu. But when they were thrown into the river the two corpses instead of sinking stood miraculously upright in the water, and in this position travelled continually against the stream, both at flood and ebb. At length however the Raja commanded the remains of both saints to be buried ashore, but as often as the bodies were measured for their shrouds, so often they kept outgrowing them. At length therefore a goat was sacrificed and the shrouds having then been measured again were at last found to be of the correct length. The burial therefore was completed; but up to this day the grave-stones of both saints continue to make miraculous movements in proof of the divine nature of To' Panjang and his pupil. These two tombs are very potent shrines and they lie about two or three miles along Patani Point.The grave-stones at head and foot are usually found to be about ten feet apart, but it is customary to measure the distance between them twice r...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217833615 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217833616 |
| Weight | 0.19 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.11 In |
| List Price | $13.10 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 48 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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