SANDOW OUT-SANDOWED.
Santfow was lately astonishing Madras, and this has tempted the Hindus to recall the feats of Bhima, the "Mahabharata," hero. Pursued by a tiger, liis mother wh6n nursing Bhima let him drop. Tho force of the impact shattered m a thousand pieces the rock on which he had fallen, but the boy was none the worse. When he quarrelled with obher hoys he gathered them up, ten or fifteen at a time, and plumped them iv tho nearest pond. His cousins hid themeiifes in a tall banyan to jeer at him, bufc he tore it from the ground without effort. He snapped his bonds like Samson, and a hungry cobra's fangs could not penetrate his skin. Hin triumph, however, was tho defeat of Uakasura, who "consumed a cartload of food, at a sitting, and used palmyra trees for toothbrushes." So at least does a Hind.ii correspondent of the Madras Mail summarise the ancient story.
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Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 155, 30 December 1905, Page 13
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