| One day
Mehadam- bara asked Sibi to give him permission to go on a pilgrimage to all the
sacredplaces, shrines and rivers of South India. The king was much pleased with the piety
of this brother, and not merely gave him the permission gladly, but also made arrange-
ments for a retinue of one thousand and five hundred persoils to accompany him.
Mehadambara visited a number of holy places and Tirthas, and at last came to a place
called "Cherum Chorla" where many yogis were doing tapascharya in the caves of a
hill called Devarakonda. Mehadambara was so moved
by the piety of the yogis, that he staved away at the place for a long time, spending his
days in Satsanga, with the yogis. He thereby lost all interest in worldly affairs, and he
himself began to renounce the World and take to yoga and tapascharya. Some time later is
died and his body was buried on the summit of the hill. Due to his tapascharya his body
would not perish, and assumed the form of a linga. |
