Another more ambitious legend derives their origin from
the Bania caste. They say that once a Bania was walking
along the road with a cocoanut in his hand when Vishnu
met him and asked him what it was. The Bania answered
that it was a cocoanut. Vishnu said that it was not a
cocoanut but wool, and told him to break it, and on breaking
the cocoanut the Bania found that it was filled with wool.
The Bania asked what he should do with it, and Vishnu told
him to make a blanket out of it for the god to sit on. So
he made a blanket, and Vishnu said that from that day he
should be the ancestor of the Gadaria caste, and earn his
bread by making blankets from the wool of sheep. The
Bania asked where he should get the sheep from, and the
god told him to go home saying ' E/idn, E/tdn, Elian,' all
the way, and when he got home he would find a flock of
sheep following him ; but he was not to look behind him all
the way. And the Bania did so, but when he had almost
got home he could not help looking behind him to see if
there were really any sheep. And he saw a long line of
sheep following him in single file, and at the very end was a
ram with golden horns just rising out of the ground. But
as he looked it sank back again into the ground, and he
went back to Vishnu and begged for it, but Vishnu said that
as he had looked behind him he had lost it.
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