Word: kuntla
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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Thieves, beggars, lunatics, gutter-rats, detesting a deity whose magnificence had seemed an insult added to the injury of their creation, were not averse to a more probable image of their maker. Thus the mad leper sat in Koili-kuntla while thugs prowled about the streets to procure him food and apparel. After two of these thugs robbed and battered a citizen, the police arrested them. Then, kindled with the desire to assert his divinity, surrounded by his riff-raff apostles, the mad leper went last week to storm the jail. Bullets, he said, would fall from him as softly...
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