Summary Basavanna offers repeated salutations to Kudalasangama Deva as the Supreme Form, the Supreme Reality, the fearsome One established in the primordial, and the cause of dissolution. He also addresses…

Summary Basavanna recalls three manifestations of Shiva’s greatness: Brahma’s skull came into His hand, Vishnu’s eye came to His feet, and the ashes of the burnt Kama came upon His…

Summary Seeing the inscriptions upon the skull garland around Hara’s neck, deluded groups read them and assign different identities: Aja, Hari, Surapati, Dharanendra, and Antaka. They engage one another with…

Summary When Kudalasangama Deva dances, the earth trembles beneath the impact of His feet, the stars scatter as His crown touches them, and the worlds are shaken by the movement…

Summary When six crore Brahmās pass away, only one day has passed for Nārāyaṇa. When one crore Nārāyaṇas pass away, Rudra’s eye has merely blinked. Basavanna then places even the…

Summary Basavanna says that through ages, dissolutions, and overwhelming movements of burning and blazing, he has seen no other. He then turns directly to the field of deities. Apart from…

Summary Basavanna questions whether the Linga can be identified through colour: one calls it red, another black, and another pure white. He then rejects comparison. To call one greater than…

Summary Basavanna challenges the easy declaration that Hari and Hara are one. Such words may leave the mouth readily, but he asks whether they arise from true knowing. He then…

Summary Basavanna names the parentage of Indra, Brahma, Vishnu, and Rudra. Each is presented as born through a mother and father. The three worlds know that all these deities are…

Summary Basavanna warns against speaking with pride of two or three gods. Divine plurality must not become a boastful assertion. He commands the listener to see the One. To declare…