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The Lost Scroll of Virupaksha Temple Author: Pia Ashar Illustrators: Pia Ashar, Zaheer Merchant

PROLOGUE Before the universe was formed there were many mystical and magical beings which ruled the existence of the the four elements and one of them was a hindu Goddess Kushmanda. It is said that she created the world with her beautiful divine smile. She has shared her visions and predictions of the ten avtars of gods on Earth and a possible priceless treasure buried somewhere in an ancient temple in India in a scroll. 2/9

Once upon a time an evil queen who used to steal all the precious and ancient artifacts. One day the queen was whispering to the commander and said \".Today our mission is the crystal skull of Trivandrum\" and the commander replied \"yes i will make sure that the crystal skull is yours \". The very next day she started her journey to the underground temple in Trivandrum. She saw some bright light coming from a chamber she went towards it but the light was so bright that she could not see so she sent some of her soldiers to take it. Only one soldier could take the crystal skull because he had a brilliant idea of covering his eye with a cloth. The chamber was blindingly bright due to the small stream of light coming from a tiny hole on the ceiling Falling onto the crystal creating an illusion of a 100 10000 lamps. 3/9

A soldier came running to her court and said \"Your majesty, my brother! the temple priest has informed me that there is a scroll in which it's inscribed that there is some information of the buried treasure and some secrets about the universe. If we can lay our hands on it, we will be able to rule the divine power. all the priests know about the whereabouts of the scroll.. \"Where is it? In which temple?\"Asked the queen happily. She was busy all day thinking how to lay her evil hands on the ancient scroll. The ne 4/9

The next day....The queen ordered her soldier to tell his brother the temple priest to steal it but the priest declined! So the queen tried her best to bribe the priest with whatever he wanted and she was successful. So on one dark mysterious night the priest tried to go in and steal but the head priest had came in and was protecting the scroll so he was unsuccessful. The 2nd night again the head priest was protecting the scroll so he could not steal it again. But the 3rd night the head priest was not protecting the scroll so he could steal it. The priest gave the scroll to the queen. 5/9

and the queen started reading the scroll. The excited Queen opened the scroll with trembling hands. The moment she opened it a surge of divine aura started to pour into the room and made it bright. She started reading and understanding the mysteries of the Universe and the key to unlock infinite energy and magic to rule the world. when she reached half way through a soldier came barging in panting profusely. She got furious and asked him 'YOU FOOL WHY ARE YOU HERE? Didn't i say no one i mean no one to disturb me...' The trembling soldier gathered all his courage and informed her that the king of Thiruvananthapuram has invaded and is raging with anger over his stolen scroll. 6/9

'Now we need to take some action to get our scroll back' said the angry King. The whole army of the King's palace was charged up to attack but a soldier from the queen's palace told to the evil queen that the angry king is starting a war so the queen told \"akrman\" when the soldiers just opened the palace door all the soldiers of the angry king rushed in the palace and started to attack. They had a very furious fight mostly all the evil queen's soldiers were dead 7/9

When she thought things were going out of control she started reciting the mantra from the 8/9 scroll.But suddenly an arrow darted from the window and barely touched her arm and flew passed her.The queen was stunned to see that the commander of the kings army was shooting arrows on her. So the queen ran as fast as she could and when she turned her head behind she saw that the commander was following her so she ran more faster and faster.

she saw that a portal gradually appeared and tried to run into the door and suddenly the scroll slipped out of her hand and when she picked it up and got up and then only the commander shooted an arrow and it really killed the queen but before dying the evil queen gathered all her might and trew the scroll one last time ,so at that time the commander was going to enter the portal but the portal srinked and just vanished. \" So now no one now's where the portal's gateway is , so do you have the capability to unlock the mysteries of the universe? \" 9/9

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