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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[DECEMBER, 1890.
(With a change of metre), - All her maid-servants were weeping: -"No mother. in-law or father-in-law is left for us; no sisters-in-law; weep!, for the time of distress has come, since thou, the mother that bare os, art no more," Her female friends are weeping: -“We have no sisters and brothers, elder or younger; there are none now to roam about the palace !" All the lords were weeping in sympathy; lamenting that she had not been able to say a single sweet word to her husband (at the time of death), and that the noble Bapu Saheb had not lived for one year more.
(Raising the voice), - All the dependents who had eaten her salt, fell quickly to the ground; and thinking of the memory of the wife of Bapa Saheb, they weep.
Ninth Verae. All the lords and ladies of the country-side came together, and assembled there. They called a skilful carpenter, and supplied him with all the proper implements, and made & car. On it they arranged mirrors in rows, and they hung on it garlands of Bowers in proper order, Round about they fastened clusters of pearls worth eight or ten thousand gold pieces, and shawls with gold and silver lace. They themselves lifted up the dead body, and proceeded on their way; over it they are waving umbrellas and chauris. Throwing about, without stint, the fragrant sandal-wood powder in baskets, they set ogt, passing along the rows of shops. In front went the noble gentleman, causing the tabors and horns, the trompets, the drums, the bass and treble ta bors, and the large tabors, to be sounded. All the people of the whole country made lamentation, gazing upon their elder sister frayva.
(With a change of metre), - While the people of Dhậrwad were weeping, benting their mouths with their handa, her son, who was kept in guard, made a hundred lamentations, praising the god Sankara. Seeing the bullock-carts and the riding-horses going in front of the dead body, he made lamentation, Having given charitable gifts, and having finished the prescribed rites, and having placed her in the earth, with praises of (the god) Basavas who gives future emancipation, they turned and went away.
(Raising the voice), - Basava, of the charming Hebballi, turned into poetry, and describedat length, all that he saw.
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Palla. Kittûra Channavvana sosi Hongala bittu hôguväga
midattidal-anna maha-dukhkhâ matta namma Mallasarja sattu hôgad-iddars hottu hôgud=yûka namma badakâ 11 Palla 1
Ine nudi. Áru ani hadinâru wanti hannerada-savira kala-balî mâraya-tôpa hôdawu hêri! hattu-lanta muttina pâliki suttal=hiduwa hattu entabelli-kavina aptágêri chandadinda chakkadigaļu wonda waliyad=hôdawa taranga-rathada chawari I sitting sipayigalu dittatanadalli hattu-hanta yashtu iddávwalli jarada mari | Kallora Kalabasappa Kannûra Mallappa Awarâdi Virappa iddara kärbari hint-inta saradáru kantara bidda hôdAru henta bandito namaga mari | Chye 11 Påndavariga ona-dêsa band-ante Aditu pâpi Dusvasa Draupati Birisaled-dyvavåga bhupatigal aivaru idd-enu maduvaru papi kêla namm-antà pâta kareyârwilla | Pannangadharana stutisuta Iravvå I Pârvaty-arasana nenisidaļo 11 Yêra || Purva-janmada likbitâ puppe simmadu tappit-endu baradân-yaka Brahma hinta bari 11 111
3. e. Nandi, the bull of Biva. Basava, the establisher of the Lingkyat religion, is looked upon us an incardation of Nandi.
