Bhutdla Pdntfiya. 



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was not then surrounded with an almost religious respect, as 



in the laws of Manu (xi, 59. 108) and the epics 



According to the tradition, the sacrifice of the cow ( go-medha 

 or (joyajna) forbidden since the beginning of the Kaliyuga, 

 the present era, had previously been in use. 



IV. — Bhutdla Pdndiya. 



Bhutdla Pandyana, Aliya Santanada Kattukattale. Mangalur 

 German Mission Press 1859. Translated by M. 0. SlN- 

 GALA'cha'rya, Canarese Translator to the High Court 

 of Madras, Appellate Side. 



/~\N Friday the third Magna Quddha in the first year of 

 V/ the era of Qaliva"hana, corresponding to the cycle year 

 I'cvara, at Simhalagnam, when the moon had arrived at 

 her twenty-sixth mansion called Uttarabh^drapada, Bmi- 

 tala Pdndiya, nephew of Devapandya, having been seated 

 on the throne given by Devendra to Vikram^ditya was 

 installed at Vizayanagar as follows. Devapandya, a mer- 

 chant of the Pandya country, having caused new ships to be 

 built and filled them with cargo worth millions of pagodas, 

 was about to launch them into the sea, when a Qivagana 

 (an attendant of Qiva) called Kundodara, seeing the ships 

 to be new ones, demanded a human sacrifice. On this, Deva- 

 pandya went to his house, and consulted his wife as to which 

 of (his) seven sons should be given in sacrifice. In the mean- 

 time, his wife took the said seven sons along with her and 

 repaired to her parents' village. Then the said merchant 

 Devapandya laid himself down in his house under deep 

 sorrow and abstained from food and drink. In the mean- 

 time, his younger sister Satyavati hearing the news, came 

 down and spoke to her elder brother, and being informed 

 of the circumstances, pacified him by saying " you should not 

 care for this trifling matter. Do you give the boy Jayap^ndya, 

 a son of mine, as a human sacrifice ; now get up and 

 take your meals, etc." She then gave her son Jaya- 

 p&ndya and went to her husband's house. The said Jaya- 

 pandya was the son of Virapandya, king of that domi- 

 nion, who was defeated by Chandrangadaraya ; conse- 

 quently at the time of the offer of the sacrifice, the said 

 Kundodara who was the king of the demons, perceiving him 

 (the boy Virapandya) to be a mahapurusha (an eminent or 

 miraculous person) refused to accept the sacrifice on 

 account of the ships of Devapandya and being graci- 

 ously pleased with the boy JayapaYidya exclaimed thus, 



