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once there was a brahmin, and though his devotion was great , so was his pride. one morning when cleaning the temple he found meat placed ontop of the shiv lingam in the temple . this , he removed and then made his offerings to lord shiva.

the next day was the same , and so was the day after. The brahmin getting greatly angered by vandalism , so prayed to the lord to solve this great mystery . Later that night the lord gave him a dream to go outside of the temple and hide.

the brahmin did this , soon enough , a hunter carrying meat came to the temple and offered it on the lingam. the brahmin was about to stop the hunter when he saw heard to hunter starting to weep . when the brahmin looked , he saw that blood was flowing out of one of the eyes of the lingam.

then he saw the hunter , using his spear, plucked out one of his own eyes and placed it in place of the lord's bleeding eye. The bleeding stopped!!! the hunter began to dance in joy that he had cured the lord when the lingam's other eye began to bleed as well .

the brahmin looked on in shock as the hunter was about to pluck out his other eye, the lord himself appeared and stopped the hunter, and gave him blessings .

at that instant , the pride of the brahmin disappeared, making him an even better devotee.