MAJOR MACDONALD. 



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by Vemana, and this is the only one not satirized by 

 him." 



Yet Mr. Brown himself remarks in another place that 

 the following verse is a satire on the Lingum worshippers, 

 a sect who are devoted to Siva, 



as^tf osfto -yrs*^^ tf)C3&» 2>[| B. II. 193. 



All this smearing your bodies with holy ashes, these 

 sectarian decorations on your shoulders, and images dang- 

 ling from your necks ; in short, your entire creeds are of 

 avail in this world alone, not in the next. 



In his second edition he makes the following remarks. 

 " It appears that he was not a Junguma, as is indeed shown 

 by his silence regarding their great teacher Basava. But 

 his tenets coincide more closely with those of the Jungums, 

 than with those of any other sect. Vemana, indeed, belonged 

 to no sect." And in his essay on the creed, customs and 

 literature of the J ungums, he gives additional reasons for 

 concluding that Vemana did not belong to this sect. " The 

 Jungums sometimes claim the poet Vemana as preaching 

 their creed, but though he evidently held the Brahmans in 

 detestation, and shows a partiality to the tenets of Basava, 

 he does not embrace the Vira Siva tenets. The insulting 

 manner in which he speaks of the female sex furnishes 

 another proof that he could not be a Vira Siva. He also 

 speaks of future transmigrations : but the Jungums believe 

 transmigration to have terminated." 



The creed held by Vemana is shown in the following 



passages.— 



