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Raayamma

Full Name: Raayasada Manchannagala Punyastree Raayamma
Pen Name (Vachana Signature): Amugeshwaralinga

The stick has a place in the wrestling school;
does it have a place in battle?
Taking up additional vows and reinitiating holds for a bhavi,
does it hold for a bhakta?
For a sinner
who violates a vow
and still clings to his body,
there is no deliverance
Amugeshwaralinga!
[vachana No. 1340] [1]

Rayamma was wife of Raayasada Manchanna who was a personal secretary of Basavanna and a Vachanakara in his own right. One vachana is traced to her name with the signature Amugeshwaralinga. It is curious that Amuge Rayamma too has the same signature.

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.
[2] Shivasharaneyaru, by: Shri Somashekhar Munavalli and Shri Siddhayya Puranik, 1994, Pub: Shree Basaveshwara Peetha, Karnataka University Dharwad-580003.
[3] Heaven of Equality, Transalted by: Dr. C. R.Yaravintelimath and Dr. M. M. Kalburgi, 2003, Pub: Shree Basaveshwara Peetha, Karnataka University Dharwad-580003.

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