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SEPTEMBER, 1895.] THE DEVIL WORSHIP OF THE TULUVAS.
were brought. The heroes put shoes on their feet and took umbrellas, and arrived. Then the Ballâl said to them :-" Kôți, Channayya, let us go a-hunting now !"
"In what country, in what forest and in what prickly shrubs are we to hunt ?"
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"Let us go to a valley, where the long-horned deer feed, or let us go to a plain where the peacocks feed, or let us go into a black forest, or let us go to the mountains, where horses grow up, or let us go to any forest you like. Let us throw stones into the forest, and send dogs into the grass," said the Ballal.
Flying birds and running birds did not rise up. on leaves of trees, and coloured deer did not get ap. get up.
Squirrels running on trees, bats hanging Cranes and other birds crying, did not
"Now let us go and hunt in a forest where black musk-deer live," said Channayya.
A large tiger, the longest in the country, got up. One Devanagari Ballal killed the tiger. Channayya killed another, which was as old as the world. When they were going to a valley, where very large tigers live, a wild hog called Panjina Gujjara, which was as old as the earth, got up quickly; and as he was coming along, grinding his teeth, as it were with the sound of thunder in the month of Karti, he ran at Kôți Baidya.
"If I run away, I shall lose my honor; but if I stand here, I shall be killed," thought Kôti himself, and killed the hog.
All men came to see the hog, which was smaller than an elephant, but greater than a horse.
Then the younger brother Channayya came to his elder brother, and called to him, "Brother, brother!" and asked him, "Did you kill a hog that is smaller than an elephant and bigger than a horse ?"
"Brother, you see," said he, "we could both kill a thousand people of Pañja together with this hog!"
Then, the brothers brought a pot of water and a shoot of the sanjimana plant, and made the hog alive again and dragged it to Pañja Balitimar, where a thousand people of Pañja on one side and the brothers alone on the other stood up to fight a battle. While they were fighting, Channayya speared the hog and killed it. A thousand people of Pañja took hold of the two hind legs of the hog, and Channayya, seeing this, tied his girdle to the hog's teeth and dragged. When they pulled only one foot, Channayya pulled seven feet, and took it to a rock called Munjolu Padê and told the people to cut up the hog. He said that a share was to be given to the village, the head and a leg to the hero who killed the hog, some curry to the neighbours, and poison to the thousand people of Pañja.
"Let us make the hog alive and draw it away to Rayanâd Forest," said Kôți.
"We gave life to the hog, took him away, and now let us go to Ekkanadka," said the
brothers.
"What is to be done for the sin of killing a hog ?" asked the younger brother.
"Channayya, one only need rub on oil; oil from oil-seeds; oil from a hand-mill; warm oil for the nails of the fingers; kilenne oil for the ears; ghi for the head: ten or eighteen kinds of oil should be rubbed on."
A servant put oil on his left side and rubbed it on the right side. He put oil on the right side and rabbed it on the left side. But while the brothers sat having the oil rubbed on, a contemptuous letter from Pañja came to Edambûr:-"Send back the whole of the wild pig, and with it some curry. When you send it, you should send our share. When you send it, you should give the hero who killed the hog the head and one leg. When you give it, you should transmit the honor. When you transmit the honor, you should send the instrument
