Essays Lectures on Religion of Hindu Vol 01

SR No.: 007688
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: H H Wilson
Publisher: Trubner and Company London
Publication Year: 1861
Total Pages: 480
Language: English
Classification: Interfaith & Hinduism
File Size: 28 MB

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OF THE HINDUS.
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of the Jangama was filled with a longing for a similiar dress, and the Jangama having no other means of gratifying her repaired to Basara, to beg of him his wife's garment. Basara immediately stripped Gangámbá, his wife, and other dresses springing from her body, he gave them all to the Jangama.
A person of the name of Kanapa, who regularly worshipped the image of EKİMREŚVARA, imagining the eyes of the deity were affected, plucked out his own, and placed them in the sockets of the figure. Śiva, pleased with his devotion, restored his worshipper his eyes.
A devout Saira named Mahadevala Macháya, who engaged to wasli for all the Jangamas, having killed a child, the Rájá ordered Basara tu hare him secured and punished; but Basava declined undertaking the duty, as it would be unavailing to offer any harm to the worshippers of Siva. Bijala persisting sent his servants to seize and tie bim to the legs of an elephant, but Macháya caught the elephant by the trunk, and dashed him and his attendants to pieces. He then proceeded to attack the Rájá, who being alarmed applied to Basara, and by his advice humbled himself before the offended Jangama. Basara also deprecated his wrath, and Macháya being appeased forgave the king and restored the elephant and the guards to life.
A poor Jangama having solicited alms of kinnaráyu, one of Basara's chief disciples, the latter touched the stones about them with his staff, and converting them into gold told the Jangama to help himself.
The work is also in many places addressed to the Jainas in the shape of a dialogue between some of the Jangama saints and the members of that faith, in which the former narrate to the latter instances of the superiority of the Saiva religion, and the falsehood of the Jain faith, which appears to have been that of Bijala Raya, and the great part of the population of Kalyána. In order to convert them Ekánta Ramáya, one of Basara's disciples, cut off his head in their presence, and then marched five days in solemn procession through and round the city, and on the fifth day replaced his head upon his shoulders. The Jain Pagodas were thereupon, it is said, destroyed by the Jangamus.
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