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AUGUST, 1896.]
THE DEVIL WORSHIP OF THE TULUVAS.
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" His name is Biru Kalkuda," said she.
They said that he had gone to Belga!a. She went to Belgola, where the people told her that her brother had gone to Yêrnad. She went there, but the people told her that he had gone to Nåd. She went there, but then she heard that he had gone to Nagar. When she went there, she heard that he had gone to Kollør, and there she came to understand that he had gone to Peddür. At last the people of that place told her that he had gone to Karkal. She went there too, and inquired after him, and heard that he had worked with satisfaction to the King, who had cut off a hand and a leg, so that he might not work so well in any other country. She heard that he had gone to Yênûr with a single hand and leg. When she heard this she cried aloud :- "Rama, Rama, Bermetti! Alas my fate! Where shall I see my brother? Where shall I go ?”
She began to cry aloud and beat herself. She passed by Ubûr, where she inquired of one Hoïlar. He asked her :-“What is your brother's name?
“Biru Kalkuda," said she. "He is working at Yênûr," said he. “What are my brother's circumstances?” asked she. "He has one hand and one leg," said he.
Then she went running to Yênûr, inquiring after him, and she threw her own and lier brother's parcel of food into a river. While her brother was finishing the enclosure of the temple and Gummatasâmi, and while he was making the image of himself on the pillar, she arrived and fell at his foot!
"Alas! my brother, you have lost a hand and foot," said she.
“Rama, Råma, Bermetti! . This has not happened on account of theft or falsehood. Bairana Süda, King of Kärka!, cut off my hand and leg, so that I might not be able to work elsewhere," said he.
She heard him and stood up at once. She stood facing Kärkal, and made an oath to revenge herself on the King for the injury done to her brother: - "I will not leave the King who has cut off my brother's hand and foot without seeing and hearing him. We do not want to live like this, brother! Let us throw all your tools and all my ornaments into the enclosure of the temple," said she.
Then they threw them in and walked three times round the temple by the light of five torches.
“Mahadeva! make us disappear!” prayed they. They disappeared in the enclosure of the temple, standing towards Kärkal.
"No ceremony was performed for our birth and death so as to sanctify us. Therefore, let us take a bath in the Kaveri at the Kanya Tirtha. Then let us go to the Ganges and bathe there," said she.
The brother and sister bathed in the Kåvēri and then in the Ganges in the North. They went to Tirupati, where they saw the festival of Anantha Nômpu30 and the Ranga Puja of the lamps. She put marks on her body, took a cane called nága betta, 31 put her box of ashes in a bag, and asked the god Timmappa to bestow power upon her. Then she took leave of him. Then the brother and sister went together to Karkal. When they came near to the palace, the sister asked her brother: - "Which is the palace of the King that cut off your hand and foot ? Shew me, brother!" said she. “The palace appears to be at the distance of a call," said the brother. 10 Worship of the god Ananta,
SI A cane with black spots.
