As a result, Dasimayya renounced his practices and took up the trade of a weaver. He is also known as Jedar Dasimayya, “Dasimayya of the weavers”. Today there is a large community of weavers called "Devanga" or "Jandra kuruvina shetty" spread across the southern states of India who follow Devara Dasimayya Today, popular tradition identifies several places where Dasimayya set up his weavers looms in Mudanuru. Like most Virasaivas that followed him, he taught a life of complete nonviolence, even teaching local hunting tribes to renounce meat and, instead, provide for themselves through pressing and selling oil. Dasimayya married Duggale, who grew up in Shivapura. He later became a teacher, eventually giving initiation to the wife of the local king, who was a Jain. Dasimayya engaged in several debates with the Jain community and, through a series of events, converted many to the worship of Shiva.