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Full Name:
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Dasarayya
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Pen Name (Vachana Signature):
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Dasareshwaralinga
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Kayaka (Occupation):
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Gathering flowers for worship
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Part of earth becoming body
part of water becoming blood and semen
part of fire becoming hunger
part of air becoming life soul
part of sky becoming the brahma randhraso
long as these five qualities persist
there is no escape from winning and losing.
Please make them stay where they are
and free me from their flirting.
Please do not think of me as bad.
I have not touched them, you have made me touch
O Dasareshwaralinga.
[Vachana No.1795]
[1]
Dasarayya was born at Ramagonde and he was contemporary of Basavanna. Veeramma was
his wife. Gathering flowers for worship was his occupation. Once when he was plucking
flowers he heard a scream ‘Alas! I am hurt!’ and from that any onwards he stopped
plucking flowers and started collecting the ones already fallen on the ground. 10
of his vachanas under the signature Dasareshwaralinga have been traced. All these
vachanas extol the virtues of nonviolence.
References
[1] "VACHANA" English Version Translation by: O.L. Nagabhushana Swamy,
ISBN: 978-93-81457-12-2, 2012, Pub: Basava Samithi, Basava Bhavana Benguluru 560001.