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 18 THE TNDTA3T ANTTQITARY. [JlJfUJLif, S7&. rv. Knlj .'iiijinuni, Mid MMBfe BByittgl Df Edi Ddlxh :ii- poranee. ChannaBasava's own sayings in general An t&lffiahoitt certain fc^it^i of Sjivn, and yltuctatuU •bout Luings doctrines and ceremonies. b 5* gives the tfonut tfdiya mutat/n, t>i tbfi im-rnbore. of which ft is said that they could not have got sternal bliss ; chapter 55 has short legend* of Siva Sanson*; chapter o7 is ft recapitulation orBaiavn's wonders, etc,; nml chapters 02 and 63 contain some lo-called prophecy. 4, Sifigi i£Ajn.'n .lfciit Biuiava Charitra (Pu- rdtia), i.e. legends regarding the great HaH&ra (BijjalR'n prime mimsl-er): 49 chapters ill $nf- pudi — doings and sayings of Basara thar. the Rams typo iw tthpo preceding two Pttr it w<i», A story that was told by B a s a v a in Bijjnla's court la, hi an kbriffged form, as follows t— « A hnnteman by profess! ou one morning told hit wife that he waj going to bring bar some sweet TOnteou, and want nwuy. On the njud he heard the sound of conch-shells and drums pmiw-iling if a Siva lo tuple, and thought that to bo ft good omen. Tiia whole day ha roamed about in tho jangle without seeing any game. In rim evening he camo to a tank, and ascended a trot that «tood on. ha bank. It was then tho four* teanth day from the full moon of tho month Ifftgfaa. Ho plucked off the leaves thai wktc ob- Hag hi* sight (then oeottra a flaw in (lie manuscri pt ). Tho leaves, together with some spray water, eaino In contact with an old liBga that for thousands of years had been left alone. After a sleepless night, the next morning bo saw that tho liffgn had been worshipped, was comforted, * n d took some roots and fruit* homo as a gift (pr/udd-a) from the 6iv* linga, which he, and his wife who had observed tho watch of tho Bh*a rdfrd in o temple during the night, ate as food after u (oat ipdrane), and mode up their mind ulnayi to do the same. If huntsman continued his sinful nnenparfon or killing animals, till dtaUh. showed its face, and tho messengers of Yama came to take the old sinner to hell. Then Siva'a servant* strongly Efttolftfod« so that Yama wont to Siva to complain. &va culled hi* servants, Who related tta story or that night, ami, by quoting a verso of Hannkrjt Siva Dhorma ihnwod the great rfrtOo of presenting etron a few ! nru and some water (to a If Ego). Therapon, sent Yama away, and blessed the Jioutxmim and hii wife, because thoy had performed a &tn The ago Of Sfflgi Raja fr denial: be had, however, become n known personage at tho roar 1586 aA, when it was told of hhn by the w the O Jjgano Bfutic* Pitrdna that '"be had of performed many wonders and obtained Siva's grace." 5, TotadArya'a aa&da JUV.j.' a vocabu- lary of Tadbhanw and eld Knnareie words— HO TBTSss in f§a y padi. Totodarya lived in Kcggere time when the Karaaimha dynasty of Vid- yanagara was declining. iffu Kaiptti (the poet's rait n»*r*m) by Linga, the prime minuter of the king of UggehalU and son of the Brahman Virnpakeha. HJa work is u vocabulary tiko tlw preceding— M versea in the aimie metre. Another vocabulary, the Oka- iurdttja Niffhrntu, by Kavi Bomma [Brahma], may bo JaiiiH, as it la composed in Arya vcrsea; Borama, however, is a name not unfraqoent with
 * ugftitaa. It eouLtiiM 100 vartes,

7. Ohikka NaSjesaa story or the poet BAgbava. It was compost, i *. 2 and 4, ma it referi to their anthers. It is in Satpadi, and has 19 chapters, with 1485 verses. Eaghava'sfatherwasMahadovallhat/ia of i'aru jiopun (Hampe, VldyAoagara) ; Ids sruru was HarUvara, Being onoe a little eroai in hii bo- haviocr lowarda his gurn, who had reproved him for not uwag his poetical faotiltiei exclusively for tho honour of Siva, this worthy knocked oat ■etroral of his teeth by a blow with one of hie wooden shoes. Tho pupil, Uy ,r«fir, *a* received back into favour, hii teeth were restowl to him, and ho was instructed. Tho drift of one of tho ■tones that formed part of hie mitrueiioas may !» given here. At tho time of king B ijj u l B there ws* no exeellent LiiTgavanta woman in Kalvana- pora, called Karaaliyi (JTaamleX &** wanted to Tisit her. aasnmed tho form of a debanehoe, and went to tho itruct of tUt town itihahited by pros- titutes, in company with Mfcrada. f the fiivourito flbjhtof the Lingaitw). who Itad to carry hia betel. pooh. The worthies of that street wondered as his beauty, and were entertained by him. Even- ing cam, ,„ liiora follows a very obsosne dV ■cription of whet Ukas plaoo in that dW Meanwhile Siva wont with NArada to tho boair- street called "the groat dn M rf was again tho object of admiration of had men and woraeu. Narad* pointed Eea a num- btr of houses occupied by female doroteea, tUl they oamo to tho Iloun, f Kamalfiyi. She rooeiv cd him u a beautiful hbeitino, and did atiU more, at this last act her life entered toto m jing» Jj, ti» g alio was found dead, and a great laeoestav tiuu commenced ( the lulga, however, in whioh bar lire was, became known, was brought ami ti«ij |o her neck, when instantly her life returned to l»«r. The poet ft A g h a v am introduced a« culling himself "the inventor of tho Sa^podi nurtrea" • S« ehM Aitm JSa^os k dten 2J,«n. Br. JL ii.4ba.vai YD