Forebearers of Greatness

  "Long time ago, there lived a king who was a pure devotee of lord Shiva, one night God appears in his dream and gives him the opportunity of building a temple for Him. He shows him a patch of land in the forest as a sacred place to build the temple, but the condition was that he had to complete his construction in only one night under the presence of the auspicious Pushya Nakshatra formation in the sky. The king accepts all conditions and begins the work very eagerly, he gets the patch cleared and put all his finest men to work. With a lot of handwork his men crafted the stones and successfully managed to complete building the temple right before sunrise. However, when a group of men were climbing down the temple, one of the craftsmen forgets his carving tools on the top of the temple. He climbs back again towards the top to fetch his instruments. He got hold of his tools and rushes to go down hurriedly, but as soon as the first rays of the sun fall on him he turns into a stone....