Basava decided to go there.
Basava declared," A man may belong to any caste.
People refer to the year as‘Basava Era‘ or‘Basaveshwar Era'.
Basava said," Look at their houses: they are huts.
These were serious allegations and Basava had to answer them.
Caught in this conflict, he asked Basava for cart- loads of grains.
What was Basava' s reaction to Bijjala' s usurpation of the throne?
The compositions of Basava are acknowledged as the model of vachpna literature.
It gave an impetus to the social revolution Basava had started in Mangaliveda.
Basava sent one of his colleagues,
Appanna, to go and bring her to Kudalasangama.
Basava seems to have survived Bijjala for a very short period of time.
Contemporary literature gives an interesting list of occupations taken, up by Basava' s followers.
To Basava and others, it appeared to be a waste of time,
money and labour.
As Allama. a contemporary of Basava, has satirically remarked," religion was the best business.
We are not suggesting here that Basava thought of these things in a logical manner.
If Basava criticised society for its shortcomings, he criticised himself more
severely for his own defects.
Basava condemns Brahmins by saying that" scriptures
show one way and they( the Brahmins) follow another.
Basava had left behind him a band of dedicated workers,
and more than that, great ideas.
It is. pertinent to mention here that Basava was the son of one such leader.
Basava believed that man becomes great not by his birth,
but by his worth to the society.
Some of the social reforms which Basava brought about are strikingly new and compel our admiration.
We have seen earlier how Basava reacted in certain situations, for example,
when his cows were stolen.
The Virashaiva poets who followed Basava chose human themes and composed their poems in simple language.
Basava told people that they should take a bath
with oil one day and eat them everyday.
The other is that Virashaivisin as such is quite ancient and that Basava only revived it.
Certain facts pertaining to the life of Basava which are recorded in earlier texts are contradictory.
Money and power had come to Basava of their own accord, but had not corrupted him.
In the beginning of. his sadhane, Basava considered God his master and himself God' s servant.
In the meanwhile,
the treasurer died and Bijjala gladly made Basava the Chief Treasury Officer in his place.
It is possible that Bijjala took these charges seriously and
put Basava to the test on various occasions.