The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s15.87

c8.s15.87

Somewhere about this time, from Basava’s unmarried elder sister Nâgalâmbikâ, who was an incarnation of the intelligence of the goddess Pârvatî, there was born, by the working of the spirit of Siva, a son, who was an incarnation of Siva’s son Shanmukha or Kârttikêya, the god of war.³ Because, the Channabasava-Purâna says, he was more beautiful than Basava in many respects, he was named Channabasava, i. e. “the beautiful Basava.”⁴ And he perhaps played a more important part than even Basava himself in the propagation of the tenets of the new sect; for, Basava is represented as receiving from him instruction on important points connected with it.⁵