World literature:reading response to three different poems
He later went on to become an ascetic and reject the wealth of his new family." Basavanna, sometimes called Basava or Basaveshwara, was a twelfth century devotee of Shiva...in the Kannada-speaking regions of southern India...[Basavanna] achieved enlightenment at a sacred meeting of rivers. This is why all of Basavanna's poems include a reference to Shiva β