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When Jagaddeva repaired home, his mother met him, and told bin that when any injury had been done (o a disciple of the Saiva faith, his fellow should avenge him or die. When Daksha treated Siva with contumely, Pdrvati threw herself into the flames, ihd so under the wrong offered to the Saints lie should not sit down contented, and so saying&he gave him his food at the door of his mansion. Thi- ther also came M allay a and Bommaya two others of the Saints, and they partook of Jagaddeva s meal. Then smearing their bodies with holy ashes, they took up the spear and sword and shield, and marched together against Bijala. On their way a bull appeared, whom they knew to be a form of Basava, come totheiraid, and the Bull went first, even to the court of the king, goring any one that came in their way, and opening a clear path for them. Thus they reached the court, and put Bijala to death in the midst of all his courtiers, and then they danced, and proclaimed the cause why they had put the king to death. Jagaddeva on his way back, recall* ing the words of his mother, stabbed himself. Then arose dissension in the city, and the people fought amongst themselves, and horses with horses, and ele- phants with elephants until, agreeably to the curse denounced upon it by Basava and his disciples, Ka- ly ana was utterly destroyed. VOL. II. c