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[APRIL, 1894.
and caused rice of a very black sort to be served to it. In the same manner he called out to another dog named Tandu, and caused broken rice and bran to be served to it. Next, he called out to a dog named Bollu, and caused green rice to be served to it. The last time he called out to the dog named Kaju, and caused rice of a coarse kind to be served to it. Then holding all the dogs in a leash, he set out from his house, following the man sent to him. He descended from the ghús into the lower country, and came to the Ballal's house. He caused his dogs to be tied to a pillar, and bowed low before the Ballâl. The Balla! asked him to sit down, and then sent a man to the two heroes, asking them to come home to his verandah. They sent word that they would bathe, and thus wash away the oil they had robbed on their bodies, and, taking a little rice water, would come to his verandah. After a little while, they arrived at the Ballå!'s house.
"Now must we go a-hunting," said the Ballal.
The people of the whole town went to the chase, and the Balla!'s son-in-law, Rukku Ballal, rode on a white horse. After meditating for some time what forest they should enter, they at last surrounded the forest called Sanka in the east. They threw stones on the bushes and held the dogs in the slips. They entered the forest, but altbough they hunted a long time, they were not able to find either deer or wild hog. They then resolved to enter the forest over-grown with the plants called simulla. They surrounded it, as they had done the first, threw stones on the bushes, and held the dogs in the slips. The deer, the hare and the wild hog did not come out of the bushes. Thus the chase proved quite useless. Now they resolved to hunt from the place called Anekallavu to Tuppe Kallavu, and surrounded the latter place. All the most prominent places were occupied by the best hunters. They threw stones on the bushes, and in a pit as deep as the height of a man they found the king of pigs, a little smaller than an elephant and bigger than a horse. It suddenly sprang out of the pit and grunted aloud, and went straight to where Koţi Baidya was standing. Its grunt, when its hair was standing on end, was like the roar of thunder. Its tusks, when it ground them, shone bright as lightning. Koți was now in a strait. He could not fly from the beast without bringing a stain upon his heroism, and he could not fight with it without risking his life. In this strait he prayed to the Bhata Brahmara of Kemmule, craving his help. He set an arrow to his bow and discharged it with such great force that it entered the body of the pig through the mouth and came out from it through the enus. The cries of the beast were heard in the three worlds and its groans resounded through the four worlds. Channayya Baidya heard the cries, and came running to Koti, to see whether his brother had killed the beast, or whether the beast had killed his brother. Koţi asked him why he came running so fast.
"I thought the pig had overpowered you and so came here," said the younger brother.
"Is it possible that the pig could defeat me ? No, it was I that killed the pig," said Köți.
"Where is that pig?" said Channayya.
"O, my dear young brother! look; here it is," said Koti. Then the younger brother threw off all the leaves which were on the body of the pig, and having examined it, placed his hand on his nosed and said to Koti :-"My elder brother, we must revive this dead pig so that by its means we may revenge ourselves on the Balla] of Panje."
"Is it possible that the dead pig should come to life again ?" said Koti.
"If the dead pig cannot revive, do you think that we can ever avenge ourselves on him of Pañje?" asked the younger brother. “If there is a Bhata named Brahmara of Kemmule, he will certainly help us. He will certainly become our charioteer."
Saying this, he took some water in a pure goblet and by means of a brush of the sacred grass, sprinkled the water on the body of the dead pig from the head to the tail. The pig
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