The moment
Basava, an official at the court of King Bijjala of Kalyāṇa, led a Śaiva movement in Karnataka that rejected caste, Brahman priesthood and the authority of the Vedas. Its members, the Liṅgāyats, wear a small liṅga on the body and sing his vachanas, plain Kannada poems to Śiva as 'lord of the meeting rivers'.
People: Basava