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APRIL, 1894.)
THE DEVIL WORSHIP OF THE TULUVAS.
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He started for the well, and, passing by his bidu, he ascended the hill Padikala, and came to the plateau of Dharma's well, where he saw and examined the four thousand oxen. But he conll not find one fit for him. Then he saw and examined the ox Channamangulo Chalu. varaya, upon which King Dharma was sitting, and bought it. He took it to a mango tree, where the ox was tied up, and then the Poyyedâr went down to a water course and sát there to perform the ceremony of japan. On his return the ox that he tied up was missing, and he cried aloud that he had lost his ox. He then referred to his jatakam, 13 and found that it was the ox on which the Bhata Dharma Arasul4 had sat, and had concealed it.
Nambe, an attendant, who had followed the Poyyedar, became possessed by the Bhuta, and came trembling and cried aloud “ld jó."
Ho said to the Poyyedâr :-"You have bonght the ox on which I sat, and now you cannot find it; but I shall cause it to be found. For this kindness, I want a matham in this country."
Thus spake the Bhâta through Nambe and then the ox, which had disappeared, appeared again before the Poyyedar..
The Poyyedar made his servants build a matham in Upper Kannandur, and a feast was performed in honour of the Bhůta. And as the servant Nambe had become possessed of the Bhúta on the banks of a water-course the Poyyedar named the Bhata, Todakinara.
Bangs from three neighbouring villages came to see the Poyyedâr's festival, and while they were on the road a man became possessed by the Bhůta and called the Poyyedâr and said :
“This is not a matham fit for me. People from three villages are collected here, and I want two separate mathams: one for your use, and one for the use of the people of the three villages. Whom can you induce to build them? Who will consent P"
The Poyyedar and the people of the three villages thought for a while about building a second matham. There was a fit place in a plain called Uikunja, and there a matham was built and a festival performed in the presence of the Poyyedâr and of the people of the three villages.15
Some years afterwards Todakinaral ordered his attendants to be ready to make a marcb, as he wanted to bathe in the Western Ocean, and was accompanied by one Ullatti of Ammanur.
She said to Todakinara :- "If you are going to take a bath in the Ocean, I shall follow you."
When he heard this he ordered his servants to bring a palankin for Ullatti and seated her in it, while he mounted his ox Channamangale Chaluvaraya. That same night he and she, with all the servants - Pilichavandi, Jumadi, Durugalaya, Verkadi, Mitta Mugeraya, and others -- started from the temple, and arrived at Ullal, where they bathed in the Ocean.
After bathing they all went to Uliya, where there is a white chapal tree, and beneath this Ullatti's palankin was put down, and here it was that she asked Todakinara for matham, as that place is a cool one.
Todakinara ordered the eight tenants of the land oil-makers, Kônkanis, Native Christians, and others to build a matham there, and they built one. A festival was performed in honor of both Ullatti and Todakinara at this matham.
Todakinara used to call her sister,' but the year after the festival he said to her :-"If we live together in one matham, the people may scoff, so you had better have this one to yourself, and I will make the eight tenants of the land build a separate one for me in the West."
He ordered them to build him another matham, and they willingly built one in the West. Ever since, their festivals are performed in both places even to this day!
15 Horoscope.
16 [1. e., King Dharma. -ED.] 16 " Three villages" is the name of a place between the Verkadi temple and Ittal Magne. 16 [This part does not appear in Mr. Männer's version. - BD.)
