Summary Basavanna recounts the genealogy of the eight-bodied manifestation called Linga: from Ādi comes Atīta; from Atīta, space; from space, air; from air, fire; from fire, water; from water, earth.…

Summary Basavanna passes through a succession of exalted Purusha-designations: the thousand-headed Adipurusha, Veda-Purusha, Tripad-Urdhva, Udanmukha, Udaya-Purusha, Virat-Purusha, Adi-Purusha, and Viyat-Purusha. He then asks us to see the radiance beyond these…

Summary Basavanna names Kudalasangamayya through a succession of victory-titles: conqueror of the world, Danu, heaven, Sūtrāma, human beings, fertile earth, horses, and cattle—yet Himself unconquered. He is self-aware, beyond Veda…

Summary Basavanna names Kudalasangama Deva through a sequence of transcendence: beyond Veda, free from sixfold varṇa, beyond the thirty-six kalās, and beyond vyoma. Scripture, classification, numerical structure, and even the…

Summary Basavanna declares that the stations of Mahalinga are nothing other than the names of Mahalinga. Linga is not a separate form or definition, nor a separate entity established through…

Summary Basavanna places earth, water, fire, air, space, and the other elemental conditions within the Paramatma-Linga, the primordial support. That Linga is inaccessible to measurement: its beginning, middle, and end…

Summary Basavanna repeatedly asks, “What is this?” He wonders how one became two, how two became one, and what this uninterrupted fullness is. He supplies no explanatory doctrine. The complete…

Summary After the Anubhava of the Self-Linga has come to him, Basavanna asks what remains of the distinction between Devaloka and Martyaloka. The final question places the movement under Divine…

Summary Within the joy of Linga-contact, Basavanna no longer knows the ten directions, earth, or sky. Even the sacred formulation, “All the world is within the Linga,” no longer remains…

Summary Basavanna asks us to behold Kudalasangama Deva’s Sharana, who is not governed by dying and being born and is not stained by doubt. Form and formlessness stand together in…