Basava

He took part at the poor feeding program at Basava Tarakam Cancer hospital, Hyderabad.

Fulltime work for TDP: Nandamuri Balakrishna 2008

A revolt against the Chalukya ruler Taila III (known dates 1150–55) led to usurpation by a general who was soon assassinated by Basava, who was in turn compelled to commit suicide.

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Basava created and organized the Lingayat sect of fanatic, anti-Brahman worshipers of Siva under a phallic emblem.

1076-1147 2001

[112] The name of Balija seems also to have been applied to a mixed caste started by Basava, the founder of the Lingayat sect of Sivites, these persons being known in Madras as Linga Balijas.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

Basava, the founder of the Lingâyats, [420] but also of Vallabhâcârya and Caitanya.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896

Their founder was Basava (the vernacular form of Vrishabha) assisted by his nephew Channabasava, [559] whose exploits and miracles are recorded in two Purâṇas composed in Kanarese and bearing their respective names.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896

Kab [= i] r, N [= a] nak, D [= a] du, and perhaps even Basava.

The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894

The Lingayat sect is supposed [295] to have been founded in the twelfth century by one Basava, a Brahman minister of the king of the Carnatic.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

Thus what philosophy the Jangamas professedly have is Vedantic, but in fact they are deistic (not pantheistic) disciples of Çiva's priest, Basava (Sanskrit Vrishabha), who taught Çiva-worship in its grossest form, the adoration of the

The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894

According to the police, around 1.30 a.m., the miscreants set fire to the tyres of two new tankers brought to Hassan for puja, near Basava statue on B.M. Road.

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