Indian Antiquary Vol 51

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[ MAECA, 1922
पडिधा सा प्राकृती च शौरसेनीच मागधी।
पैशाची चुलिकापशाच्यपभ्रंश इति क्रमात् ॥ and further on he says, in connection with the localities in which these languages are spoken
पिशाचदेशनियतं पैशाचीहिसयं भवेत् ॥ In fact the name Şadbhasacandrika itself loses its significance if it treats of three Paiçacikas in which case it will have to treat of seven dialects. And in the chapter devoted to this particular Paicâcikâ (pp. 262, 263) he invariably says in the gloss fe r i .
It thus appears that none of the grammarians who follow Hemacandra treat of more than two Paiçacikâs. And all these treat of six dialects. Hemacandra too treats of the saine six dialects and so we are not justified in saying that he has three Paiçacikás, thus making his dialects seven.
VACHANAS ATTRIBUTED TO BASAVA. TRANSLATED BY RAO SABIB P. C. HALKATTI, M. L. C.
(Continued from p. 40.)
Stage III : Prasada : Grace.
A. Work without Desiring Anything in Return. 1. I labour in my fields for the sake of my master. I trade for the sake of God. I accept service with others for the sake of the servants. For, I know that whatever Karma I form, Thou dost subject me to the enjoyment of the fruit of that Karma. Hence I spend for none besides Thee the wealth Thou hast given me. I give back Thy wealth to Thee. This is my oath, O Kudalasaigama Deva.
2. Mere strings of words such as God is the soul of all created beings' will never do instead of the work which is your duty. You ought to use up your body, mind and soul for Guru, Liuga and Jangama. You ought to work for the servants of Kudalasangama Deva.
3. If it flashes into your mind that you did do your work, you will be rebuked and troubled. This is the word of God. Do not say that you worked for God. Do not say that you worked for his servants. If there be no sense in your mind that you worked for God, Kudalasangama Deva will offer you whatever you ask.
4. I perform at their proper times those several rites, namely the eight kinds of worship and the sixteen kinds of services, and so I become pure. But therein I have no ulterior desire or object. Hence there is no production of fruit, and so I work and become pure, O Kudalasa ugama Deva.
5. It is said " They will walk in a terrible hell for time imperishable, if they eat, sleep, rise, touch and dine with the worldly.” Basava reads these words. But my brothers say that Basava sits below the throne of the worldly Bijjala and serves him. I shall answer them, and am able to answer them. Even though I enter the house of the Mahars of Mahârs and work for them as a day.labourer, I am always burning to attain thy position. But if I, on the other hand, burn for the pleasure of my stomach, O Kudalasa ugama Deva, let my head be a fine for it, let my head be a fine for it!
6. Is there anybody in this world who says to another: "Eat for my body, and enjoy my wife for me"? Hence you yourself ought to work with an eager mind. You yourself ought to work, labouring with your body. If you do not work with your body, how will Kudalasangana Deva bo pleased with you !