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SEPTEMBER, 1895.) THE DEVIL WORSHIP OF THE TULUVAS.
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“Can iron cut iron in two, Channayya ?" asked the Balla!.
“ If iron cannot cut iron, how can it be possible for a man to kill another, and how can & battle be fought ? " said Channayya.
“When shall I see your face again, and when will you see my face again, brother?" asked Channayya.
Channayya Baidya went to battle at Panja. Koti Baidya went to battle at Nekildiyya. Channayya killed thousand people of Pañja and had a gold post carried from Pañja to Edambûr. He did not leave even a single man to answer a call, and he did not leave even the sprouts of plants, but destroyed every thing. He dug up the steps with a pickaxe and burnt the house with fire. He made the house red and then black, and then said that he would go to his elder brother. When he went to his brother Koți, he had gathered the seven bottles into one, had defeated all in six battles, and was fighting the seventh. He made a sigu with his cloth so as to turn his younger brother back, as there was an arrow shot by Sanda Giddi.
"Has the arrow struck your eyes or legs?" asked Channayya.
Immediately an arrow came and struck Channayya's leg. . “If he was a good dog, he would have bitten in front, but as he is a dog of Paija, he has bitten from behind. Therefore, I cannot see the arrow and take it out," said Channayya, and shook his leg with force.
Then the arrow struck Sanda Giddi. Chandayya was carried to Edambûr.
Koti Baidya fought the battlos and defeated all his enemies. He came to a white saroli tree and sat down under it. Then he was not himself. The black bird, kalinga, sat on his liat. In the meantime one Kalori of Pasja, who had fled from the battle, came to Koti and seized his dagger, and when Koti Baidya opened his eyes and saw him,
"This is not my dagger, bat belongs to Brahmana of Kommulaje. It is not necessary to steal it from my hands. I will give you it myself," said Koti.
When the Balla! of Edamber heard that one Kalu Naika had gone away with Koti's dagger, the Balla! sent his nephew Devanajiri Ballal to Koti. When Dêvanajiri Ballal arrived, Kala Naika was going away with the dagger, but he caught Kalu Naika and tied him to a horse's feet and made the horse ran away. Then Kalu's face and nose were broken, and he died.
Dêvanajiri went back to Koti Baidya. Koţi Baidya then said to the Balla, “Brahma las ordered me to go to him. I leave this life, and therefore I give you à grant on copper."
Koți Baidya wrote a document that Edambær is for the elder brother, and Prūja for the younger brother, and gave it to Dêvanajiri.
I leave my body and go to Kailasa ; therefore get holy tulasi, and pour water into my mouth. Under a white saroli tree at Hasalajya Bail in Beltangadi Koti left his body and went to Kailasa. And when he died and entered Vaikuntha, Brahmå ordered him not to touch the wall of the temple and not to descend into the yard.
"As you are the god who knows the particulars of all Sastrams, why did you make me die?" asked Kôţi.
There is only one death and one burial ground both for you and your brother; therefore, bring your younger brother, too," said Brahma.
When Köți came to Channayya, as a spirit, his leg was being washed. Koți called ont, "O, my younger brother !" and then the younger brother Channayya struck himself on the head, and died, and went to his brother. Then they went together to Brahma. Then
