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	Basavanna : Poems and Biography
		Basavanna, sometimes called Basava or Basaveshwara, was a twelfth century devotee of Shiva and early organizer of the Virasaiva Lingayata sect in the Kannada-speaking regions of southern India.
		Basavanna was orphaned at a young age but adopted by a wealthy family with political connections.
		Basavanna urged a non-violent response, but the reflex for revenge was too strong among some of the community's members.
	www.poetry-chaikhana.com /B/Basavanna/index.htm (401 words)

	The tale of a social reformist - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Basavanna’s controversial philosophy on life, religion and marriage shook the very foundation of the social structure and set the tone for a great social revolution in the 12th century.
		Thus Hadap Appanna a barber, Jedara Dasimayya was a weaver, Kinnari Bommayya a goldsmith, Vakkalmuddayya a farmer, Shankar Dasimayya a tailor, Jedar Madanna a soldier, Ganada Kannappa an oilman, Mydar Channayya a cobbler and Ambigara Chowdayya a ferryman.
		Bijjala was pleased and appointed Basavanna as the chief officer of the treasury.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/May22006/spectrum04138200652.asp (1391 words)

	Lens » 2005 » November » 23 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Basavanna is an adviser and a friend of King.
		After a long discussion with Basavanna and using his own ways of providing justice which is not only backed by sound reasoning but also supported by rich experience, King decides to visit the village and declare his verdict.
		It (especially during the classic argument between Basavanna and King) was too complicated and abstract to be followed (by me…It was one of the few occassions when I have not been able to follow the parallel meaning completely).
	rkblogs.net /blog/2005/11/23 (501 words)

	Basavanna...
		Indian government insulted the great revolutionist and social reformer Basavanna and his millions of followers by recognizing the Lingayat religion as one of the caste.Lingayat is the religion by itself.Lingayat should be considered as the religion.It is difficult to spread the religion to other parts of the world without getting the status of religion.
		Basavanna preached consistent monotheism which preaches belief in one only God who is all pervading, omnipotent, omniscient etc. He insisted to worship the only God in the form of globular Istalinga and nothing else.
		After Dharmapita Basavanna left Kalyana obeying the punishment-order given by the king, all the three, Haralayya, Madhuvarasa and Sheelavanta-the bridegroom were sentenced to death in a very cruel way.
	chennamallikarjun.tripod.com (1114 words)

	Virasaivism
		Basavanna lived and taught in what is now the Karnataka State in India.
		Basavanna attempted to rid society of caste distinctions, although these can be found to a degree in modern Lingayats.
		Many of the reforms which Basavanna pushed for would be later adopted by Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda, and others.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/v/vi/virasaivism.html (151 words)

	Githa Hariharan
		For Shiv's predicament arises from the history lesson he has written for an open university, a lesson on the life of Basavanna, the 12th Century social reformer, where the pain, passion, and anger are not hidden to present a plastic saint.
		Over the years, the vachanas have stayed with me. But Basavanna speaks so directly and his assertion that you are not your function is as relevant today as is his questioning of caste.
		In the context of the novel, Basavanna was also more suitable because there was already a precedent of an attempt to ban a literary work (the play by H.S. Shivaprakash) based on his life.
	www.githahariharan.com /interview_closetothebone.htm (1010 words)

	THE SPEAKING TREE<BR>Basavanna Tried to Democratise Faith-Editorial-OPINION-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Popularly known as Basavanna, he propagated moral, ethical and spiritual values for a peaceful and purposeful life.
		Basavanna's mission for the formation of a new society through Anubhava Mantapa was based on certain noble principles: There is only one God.
		Basavanna advised that each of us should continue with our professional work; at the same time, we should lead a virtuous and spiritual life.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/articleshow?artid=26895741 (627 words)

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		Veera Shaiva tradition states that Basavanna was a reflective and defiant youth who rejected much of the Shaivism practiced in his day, tore off his sacred thread, yajnopavita, at age 16 and fled to Sangama, Karnataka.
		Basavanna wedded two wives, taking on the householder dharma, strengthening his teaching that all followers-not only renunciates-can live a holy life.
		Basavanna, feeling his mission in the capital had come to an end, left for Sangama, and shortly thereafter died, at the age of 62.
	members.tripod.com /~lingayat/veerashaiva.html (1623 words)

	Ancient vIrashaiva
		But the point that he got initiated into the path through a guru and the fellow devotees were also initiated to vIrashaiva probably indicate that, it may not be basavaNNa who founded this path.
		But without any doubt, it is he and the fellow devotees who made the major difference in the way the religion was flowing.
		The practice of vIrashaivam which was in existence earlier too got a new outlook with the patronage of the great devotee basavaNNa and stood with splendor transforming the society in the later days.
	www.shaivam.org /virashaivam/kvancien.htm (540 words)

	srramakrishna - Was Manteswamy a rebel god? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The bhakti movement led by Basavanna stressed the dignity of common people, and boosted the self-confidence of the artisan and other working classes.
		Basavanna and Allama Prabhu shaped the movement with their fearless moral leadership.
		There is no historical evidence to show that they were contemporaries of Basavanna, but enough evidence exists to show that they come from a later period, and that they hailed from castes low down in the social hierarchy.
	srramakrishna.googlepages.com /manteswamyintro (631 words)

	Basavanna's bull of good fortune - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Basavanna saw Nandi tethered to the trunk of a banyan.
		Basavanna wound a jaggery yellow turban around his head and the rounds began.
		She was waiting for Nandi, holding an earthen pot filled with sweet pongal- a delicious mix of freshly harvested rice, moong dal, milk and jaggery.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jan142005/os1.asp (825 words)

	World Scripture - ARGUMENT WITH GOD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The great bhakti saints such as Basavanna had such pure and ardent devotion that they could argue for the integrity of their relationship with God.
		Basavanna, Vachana 440 I am the cattle; you are the herdsman.
		Kudala Sangama is Basavanna's personal name for Lord Shiva; it is the name of a temple where he studied in his youth.
	www.globalpeaceworks.org /resources/ws/wsbook/theme109.htm (2015 words)

	SivaSakti.COM - Vira Shaivism. Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		At the age of 28, Basavanna reached the conclusion that humankind is mostly based on the doctrine of a personal God, an individual God, in the form of istalinga - chosen exterior divine phallus.
		When Basavanna was almost at the end of his studies, he had a bright dream, in which Shiva Kudalasangama gently touched his body, saying: "Basavanna, my son, your time to leave this place has come.
		Basavanna had two wives, underlying in his teachings the fact that all practitioners can lead a holy life, not only those who renounce to the pleasures of life.
	sivasakti.com /articles/tantra/kashmiri-shaivism-art141.html (1084 words)

	Introduction - Basaveshwara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Basavanna wrote in the vachana form using prose.
		Basavanna preached that every one should continue in his professional work and at the same time lead a virtuous and spiritual life.
		Basavanna was modest and used to say, 'There is none smaller than I.' He used to say that he did not want to be praised.
	www.freeindia.org /biographies/sages/basaveshwara/index.htm (353 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		This sect represents a reform movement attributed to Basavanna and others in the 12th century.
		While Basavanna understood Shatsthala as a process process with various stages to be attained in succession, the credit of refuting this and redefining Shatsthala goes to Channabasavanna, Basavanna's nephew.
		Akka Mahadevi and sangana Basavanna have led the Vachana movement from front which explains the esoteric vedas in simple terms - in kannada language.
	goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Virashaiva (2117 words)

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		Before the birth of Basavanna it was customary to write religious and ethical texts in Sanskrit.
		Basavanna preached that every one should continue in his professional work while leading a virtuous and spiritual life.
		Thus Basavanna accomplished reforms in all fields - religion, morality, social life, economics, language and literature.
	bagalkot.nic.in /koodal.htm (1031 words)

	Lingayats, lord shiva, Siva worship, Karnataka, Kadalasangamadeva
		It was somewhere in 1160 AD that Lingayatism originated as a result of the activities of scholar saint Basavanna.
		Basavanna worshipped Siva in the form of the Lord of the Meeting Rivers, Kadalasangamadeva.
		There were many saints after him and he as well as the others wrote as whole corpus of literature in Kannada known as vacanas.
	www.indiaprofile.com /lifestyle/lingayats.htm (377 words)

	Basavanna’s ideals remedy for many woes: KDA chief - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He felt the urgent need to understand and adopt the ideals of renowned twelfth century social reformer Basavanna in the present times as it is the only answer to issues like communal rift, poverty, uneployment, illiteracy and others.
		Basavanna led a great movement for the uplift of the oppressed and distressed, Siddalingaiah said and pointed that he was the first person to State that castes had only to do with the family occupations and they were not God-created.
		It is unfortunate that those people who took active particiaption in Basavanna’s movement are forced in to trials and tribulations, he regretted and suggested that only his principles can alleviate their state.
	www.deccanherald.com.cob-web.org:8888 /deccanherald/nov122006/district22353120061111.asp (590 words)

	Dunkin Jalki's home page — CSCS Courseware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In some of his speeches delivered in 1903, for instance, talking about the inter-religious conflicts and caste system, he had proffered Lord Rama and his preaching as capable of delivering us out of the bane of caste system (see for instance, Manjappa 1966: 538, 578).
		Basavanna often writes that “whoever it might be, one who hasn’t touched linga is a kīlu-jāti [lower caste] person” (“entahavanādadēnu, linga muttadavane kīlu-jāti” p.38; v.142).
		Thus the ‘failure’ of Bhimakavi and his contemporaries in understanding Basavanna’s vacanas has less to do with their intellectual deficiencies than with their failure to satisfy the demands of the 20
	www.cscsarchive.org /courses/phd/students/dunkin (1915 words)

	BASAVANNA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Shree Basaveshwara was born in a brahmin family, to Madarasa and Madalambe in 1131 AD in Bagewadi.
		Madarasa was the chief of Bagewadi, now known as Basavanna Bagewadi is in Bijapur district, Karnataka, India.
		It is observed that Basaveshwara was an incarnation of Nandi the vehicle of lord Shiva, as Madalambe gave birth to a son after observing the Nandivrata.
	ompash.tripod.com /space/id18.html (892 words)

	Basava - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Basava (also known as Basaveshwara (Kannada:ಬಸವೇಶ್ವರ) or Basavanna(ಬಸವಣ್ಣ)) was a philosopher and a social reformer.
		With his honesty, hardwork and visionary mission, Basava rose to the position of Prime Minister in the court of king Bijjala, who ruled from 1157—1196 at Kalyana (presently renamed as Basavakalyana).
		Basava said that the roots of social life are embedded not in the cream of the society but in the scum of the society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Basavanna (1592 words)

	VSNY WEBSITE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Basavanna said that the God's head is above the sky, his feet are below the bottom and his body encompasses the universe.
		Basavanna popularized his new movement by conveying the principles of religion in the language of the people, Kannada, which thus became the best means and medium of carrying conviction to them.
		Basavanna preached and practiced the practical aspect of religion and thereby set an example to the mass.
	members.aol.com /ukumbar/vsny/Detailed.htm (17263 words)

	chitraloka.com ::: Mega Portal For Kannada Cinema - Basavanna On Bhairavi-Actor Srinivasamurthy Forging Ahead In Etv
		Srinivasamurthy is ‘Basavanna’ the 12th century reformer for the people of Uttar Karnataka.
		The 70 episodes television serial ‘Anna Basavanna’ concluding on April 14 in ETV has become a household must watch in the Veerashaiva community too.
		But when ‘Anna Basavanna’ shooting was done there the rain lashed that area and the water got filled in the ponds resulting in easing the difficulty of the Harijans.
	www.chitraloka.com /sections/encounter/srinivasamurthy.shtml (777 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This vacana is spontaneous in its structure; Basavanna is unable to verbalize his affection for Lord Shiva.
		Basavanna is sending the message that although he may not be smart, he is still devoted to the Lord.
		It is apparent through this vacana that Basavanna considers individuality and spontaneity to be more important than education.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~rspatil/classweb/veerashaivism/texts.html (378 words)

	The Hindu : Propagate Basavanna's message: Krishna
		``Basavanna was responsible for social changes in the State 800 years ago.
		It may not be possible for us to follow the philosophy propagated by Basavanna in toto.
		But efforts should be made to follow at least some of them and save society,'' he said.
	www.hindu.com /2002/05/15/stories/2002051502640600.htm (300 words)

	Hinduism Today \| Oct 1991
		Amazingly close-knit for the distances that divide them, this energetic band of egalitarian-minded Sivalingam worshippers trace their roots to Karnataka and further to Saint Basavanna, the rebel founder/saint of this sect.
		Founded at the down of history, it was reformed and revitalized by Saint Basavanna who lived from 1150 to 1167.
		He rejected caste hierarchy, a multiplicity of Gods, the magico-ritualistic (and allegedly self-aggrandizing) priestcraft, temple worship, duality of God and soul an the idea of ritual purity/pollution and doing charity to win God's special favour.
	www.hinduismtoday.com /archives/1991/10/1991-10-02.shtml (1593 words)

	The Music Magazine -- India's first and finest music e-zine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This is a Basavanna vachana in which the leader of the 12th century bhakti movement disowns his privileged brahmin birth, and embraces fellow mystics and vachanakaras from lower castes as his family.
		The body as temple is a metaphor that asserts the dignity of the less affluent.
		Seven of the eight vachanas on Side B are by Basavanna, and the eighth, sung by S Janaki, is by Akka Mahadevi.
	www.themusicmagazine.com /samyuktavach.html (1013 words)

	Basavanna: Where they feed the fire
		Basavanna is chiding those who worship the sacred reality and mystical truth, but only so long as it is nice and neat and socially acceptable -- intellectualized and not actually experienced directly.
		When the fire of bliss "goes wild" and "burns the house," filling the awareness with itself as the one all-consuming reality, then these casual worshippers become terrified and try to suppress this sacred process.
		So Basavanna challenges us to ask ourselves honestly: Do we worship only what is comfortable, a god of our making and under our control, a safely caged notion of the Divine?
	www.poetry-chaikhana.com /B/Basavanna/Whereyfeedfi.htm (366 words)

	Hinduism Today \| Mar 1994
		Vira Saiva tradition states that Basavanna was a reflective and defiant youth who rejected much of the Saivism practiced in his day, tore off his sacred thread, yajnopavita, at age 16 and fled to Sangama, Karnataka.
		This spiritual realization gave rise to the central Vira Saiva belief that the human body is to be revered as a moving temple of the Lord, to be kept in a perpetual state of purity and sublimity.
		Thus emerged temple worship, certain traditions of ritual purity, giving gifts to gurus, and the stratification of society, headed up by two large hierarchical orders of jangamas-resulting in the institutionalization of the crucial guru-disciple relationship, which by Vira Saiva precept should be very personal.
	www.hinduismtoday.com /archives/1994/3/1994-3-13.shtml (1657 words)

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