'■v C 12 3 Bdsava continued to reside at Sangameswara conversing with hid disciples and communing with the divine Essence, and he expostulated with Siva, saying e By thy command have I and thy attendant train come upon earth, and thou hast promised tore- call us to thy presence when our task was Accom- plished. " Then Siva with Pdrvati came from forth the Sangameswara Lingam, and were visible ta Bdsava who fell on the ground before them. They raised him, and led him to the sanctuary, and all three disappeared, in the presence of the. disciples, and they praised their master, and flowers fell from the sky and then the disciples spread themselves a- broad, and made known the absorption of Bdsava into the emblem of Siva." This account of Bdsava is by Bhima Kavi: a si- milar compilation, if not the same, is sometimes at- tributed to Somatia Ard&hya*. Jangama teacher. VI II — Bdsava Pur (ma. Paper. A similar work as the preceding and by the same author but in a more elaborately poetical style. IX. — Chervha Bdsava Pur ana. Paper, incomplete. An account of Chenna Basava, an incarnation of i he Pranava or mysterious syllable Om, begot- ten on Ndgaldmbikd the sister of Bdsava, herself . an incarnation of Pdrvati, by the spirit of Siva.
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