Battisputali

King Vikramaditya of Bishalanagar was a supremely righteous, self-sacrificing and justice-loving ruler. Through austere worship of the Goddess and the offering up of himself, he had obtained a divine throne of justice.

On that throne were carved thirty-two figurines (fairies) endowed with thirty-two auspicious marks. Seated upon that very throne, King Vikramaditya used to give his subjects impartial and truthful justice. During his reign all the people were happy and free of debt.

After Vikramaditya's death, that divine throne was buried beneath the earth and became unknown.

In the course of time, King Bhoj found that incomparable throne while digging the ground. When King Bhoj, puffed up with pride, was about to sit upon it, those thirty-two figurines would come alive one after another and appear. They would narrate the thirty-two stories of Vikramaditya's great sacrifice, generosity and impartial justice, and make King Bhoj examine himself.

In the end, when King Bhoj acknowledged his own unworthiness, all those thirty-two figurines, together with the throne, flew up into the sky and vanished. The sacred place where that historic seat of justice once stood is called 'Battisputali' today.