Basava
Robert Zydenbos
zydenbos at GMX.LI
Thu Feb 8 00:24:13 UTC 2001
Am Mit, 07 Feb 2001 schrieb N. Ganesan:
> What does Basava mean in KannaDa language?
> Anything to do with light, brightness, etc.?
A tadbhava of Skt. v.r.sabha, "bull". (The religious thinker and
saint Basava / Basava.n.na (12th cent.), who organised the Virasaiva
community, is also considered an incarnation of Nandin.)
Robert Zydenbos
Institut für Indologie und Iranistik
Universität München
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