Prabhulinga Leelai

 

Gorakkar Gati

 

Prabhulinga Leelai is a poetical account, originally composed in Kannada, of the life of the celebrated Virasaiva saint, Allama Prabhu. Ramana Maharshi read and appreciated the Tamil translation of this work and he often referred to the chapter in it that dealt with Allama Prabhu’s meeting with Gorakkar, a yogi who was trying to attain physical immortality. We (Robert Butler, T. V. Venkatasubramanian and David Godman) have recently completed the first English translation of this chapter.