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 L 17. 1 of the Jangama faith. The second is a prose nar- rative of the origin and progress of the Jangama re- ligion in the same strain as the other works of this class. Discourse between Prabhudeva and Chenna Bdsava. Prabhu deva said I have come to know the Almighty from you, a knowledge I have acquired, but I still wish to hear the particulars of my birth, from you. How else can I appreciate S angaria Basavana, as he is known to you. I have explained to the people the nature of both eternal and transitory things^ I have ascertained God, and abandoned the world. I have dis- criminated the acts of the body, and mind, and holy wisdom. I have attained the limits of true wisdom, and am worthy to hear the story of Bdsavana who is the disciple of Guhyeswar. The junior minister, Chennah Bdsava being satisfied of his possessing true wisdom, thus replied. When the world is blank and there is nothing, wh^ipSfce fourteen Bhuvanas are not, when no person beholds the Lingam, and he that sees the Lingam in himself is entitled Adrv ad a, then Bdsava is found in the center of the universe of fifty Crores of worlds, on Meru which is one crore, twenty-six Lacks and Eighty thousand Yqfans high, on its peaks and at its angles, Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, Isivara, Sadasiva, Nandi, Mahdkdla, Virabhadra^ Eighty thousand Ms his, and inumerable Ganas, the twelve Adilyas, Ndrada, the Eight Dikpdlakas, and Eleven Rudra, surrounded Siva in his Court. The extent of Jambudrvipa which is below Meru is related likewise in the Purans. Prabhudeva asked him ; Is there any other region. He replied ; The circumference of the earth including the seven oceans and Islands, is three and seventy Lacks, and Fifty thousand Yojans^ b?yond thisthe mountain Raj i tad i is ten crores of Yojans; beyond it, is darkness for Five hundred crores of Yojans, the constel-