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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[OCTOBER, 1896.
"I shall make the people bring vows both for you and me," said he.
A temple was built, and a car was made at the right side of the temple. A feast and a sacrifice were performed, and he was called Pañjurli of Chembukal. After that be used to get feasts and sacrifices from every house, following the ropes of the bullocks and the relations of women.
BURNELL MSS. - No, 28.
THE STORY OF VODILUTAYA. Original in the Kanarese character; translation according to Burnell MSS. Original, text and translation, occupies leaves 278 to 280.
There was a woman named Gollaramma Deyar, and a man named Eka Salyar, who had a son called Balu Sénava. When he was a pretty little child, and suckling, his mother died, and when he was old enough to eat rice, his father, too, died. Seven years passed over him, and when ten or twelve years had passed, he put his mother's ashes on a golden plate and his father's on a silver plate, and said he wanted to go to the Ganges to throw them into it. He heard that the Ganges lay to the north, and said : -"No one has seen it as yet." But Narayana Sénava, his brother-in-law, bad seen the Ganges, and so he called Narayana Sênava to his house, and said :
"I have heard that you have been to the Ganges. How far is it and what is it like
"I will tell you. There is the Maha Gange and the Mani Gange, the beautiful Ganges in the north for sin and RåmêŚwar for crime. When I went to the Ganges, I had an iron stick as long as a man, and when I returned back and reached home it was decreased by half a cubit. I crept on my belly for a month, on my knees for two months, and on my haunches for three months. It was a gloomy road with pits in it and deserted as well. For four months' journey, there was a tiger waiting to seize any one who tried to pass. For five months' journey, there were the black serpents called Sankapkla. I went on enduring all these difficulties, and have returned back; you will have to go through the same."
Knowing that he would have to suffer all these dangers, he started for the Ganges with ten or twelve persons, and reached it after passing all the dangers. There was a temple called Jagamantami in the Ganges, and there he offered a vow. He bathed there at the tirtha, and he cast the ashes into the water, and he took sandal.
There was a Bhůta, called the Great Vodilutaya. "I shall go along with you," said the Bhůta.
"I will not tell a Bhůta, who wishes to come with me, not to follow me, and I will not tell a Bhůta, not willing to come with me, to follow me. If you are willing to come, you may come along with me," said Bålu Sênava. "But, if you come with me, how can a feast be performed for you?"
"As I follow you, a frame of bamboos of the height of the sky and another of the breadth of the world must be made. Sheep must be killed and put in a pan, a thousand torches made of sticks of the areca palms, balls of rice heaped on bamboo mats, fowls must be killed and heaped on a pan, tender cocoanuts cut and a pot of toddy presented," said the Bhita.
"I will give you what you ask : do you follow me," said Balu Sénava, (and in due course) he returned home from the Ganges.
He came to the bidu of Idakaja Margal. He built & sánam like a palace. "And now a feast must be performed,' said Bala Sênava..
He dug twelve rows of cucumber beds for the feast of the Bhuta. He planted cucumber seeds. Cucumbers of the colour of squirrels were produced. He counted them daily.
