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APRIL, 1894.]
THE DEVIL WORSHIP OF THE TULUVAS.
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revived in all its freshness and vigour, and at once stood up. It then took its way to Panje, the two brothers following it. When it came to the rice-field called Baki Balisemara in Panje, the elder brother discharged a long arrow at it. The groans of the pig were heard by the thousand people of Pañje. At one call, they assembled near the pig. One thousand men of Pañje, three hundred of Kolapadi, and one thousand of Kokke Yani. They resolved not to give up the pig that lay within their boundaries and to carry home the whole of the pig, even at the cost of their lives. Then the thousand men of Pañje brought a white creeper, which is the strongest of all the creepers, and, twining it round one of the tusks of the pig, they dragged it along with songs.
At this moment Channayya Baidya said to Kôti :- "The pig lies within the boundaries of Edambůr, and Edambar belongs to you: why then do you make delay ? Will you fight with the thousand men of Pañje ? Or will you give up the pig ?"
After hearing these words, did he tarry long? He at once held the pig by its task, and Chamayya drew out the arrow from its body and punished the thousand men of Pañje. Koti dragged away the pig, Channayya slew the thousand men of Panje and they lay dead on the field, as lies the suggi crop. Those who fled to the East he pursued up to the sea of pure water. He severely reproached those who fled to the West, and completely overpowered then. He pargued those who fled to the North as far as the Ganges! And those who fled Southward, he drove into the sea. Then the brothers, dragging the pig along with them, went on. On one side was the village of Pañje and on another was that of Edambůr, and between them was a big rock named Manjolu. They placed the pig on the rock, and sent a man to the Balla! of Pasije to ask him to come to them for the purpose of cutting the pig to pieces and distributing it to the people. The messenger went to the Balla! and begged of him to come.
The Ballal said to the messenger :-"Let the heroes, who killed the pig, cut it to pieces and distribute the pieces to the people."
The two brothers accordingly cut the pig to pieces and distributed them to the people, saying :-"This day, we have given you the flesh of a pig: tomorrow, we shall give you the flesh of a lion. Therefore, those who are assembled here to-day must assemble again tomorrow. Tomorrow, too, we intend to distribute flesh."
They then told the people that they would return to their own country. They resolved to rub oil on their bodies and bathe, in order to wash away the sin of having killed a pig.
“What substances are required to wash away the oil P" asked the elder of his younger brother.
“We want black gram, pods of green gram, the juice of some plants growing in the wet and dry fields, and some acid substances," replied the younger brother.
“Who is the man best fitted to rub the oil on our bodies P" asked Koti.
“There is one Mutti Sirds, the son of a man of that profession, who, by rubbing half a sér of oil on the body, can squeeze one sér of oil out of it," said Channayya.
Mutti Sirda was sent for, and was asked to name the different kinds of oil that he required. He said :-"0, heroes! gingely-seed, oil, cocoanut-oil and castor oil are required."
All preparations were made for their bathing. One hundred pots of hot water and one hundred pots of cold water were made ready by order of the brothers. Then Mutti Sîrda began to rub the oil on their heads and bodies. He rubbed ghi and oil on their heads. He poured the oil called kir into their ears. He rubbed the oil called bindu on their joints, and on their nails he rubbed boiled oil.
Meanwhile the Ballal of Edambůr received a letter from Sayina, the contents of which were as follows:-"Send me the head and some flesh of the pig; and when you send me the head and the flesh, send me any curry that you may have made of its flesh; and when
