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Author : Sumita Roy
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religious poetry, Indic
ISBN : 8120718836
Author : Karen Pechilis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136507052
Devotion is a category of expression in many of the world’s religious traditions. This book looks at issues involved in academically interpreting religious devotion, as well as exploring the interpretations of religious devotion made by a sixth century poet, a twelfth century biographer, and present-day festival publics. The book focuses on the female poet-saint Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār, whose poetry is devotional in nature. It discusses the biography written on the poet six centuries after her lifetime, and suggests ways of interpreting Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār’s poetry without using the categories and events promoted by her biographer, in order to engage her own thoughts as they are communicated through the poetry attributed to her. In the same way that the biographer made the poet ‘speak’ to his present day, the book looks at how festivals held today make both the poetry and the biography relevant to the present day. By discussing how poetry, story and festival provide distinctive yet overlapping interpretations of the saint, this book reveals the selections and priorities of interpreters in the making of a living tradition. It is an accessible contribution to students and scholars of religion, Indian history and women’s studies.
Author : John Stratton Hawley
Publisher : Oxford India Paperbacks
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0195694201
In this volume the authors present the life stories and works of Ravidas, Kabir, Nanak, Surdas, Mirabai, and Tulsidas - six well-known 'saint-poets' of northern India who have contributed more to the religious vocabulary of Hinduism in the region today than any voices before or since.
Author : Ramchandra Dattatraya Ranade
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0873956699
Mysticism in India is a complete and informative description of the teachings, works, and lives of the great poet-saints of Maharashtra written by a scholar and professor who was also a mystic. Jnaneshwar, Namadev, Tukaram, Eknath, Ramdas, and the other saints discussed belonged to the great devotional religious movement that spread through medieval India. With the exception of Ramdas, they all belonged to the tradition of the Varkaris, the most popular sect in contemporary Maharashtra. Their compositions exemplify the universality of their faith and practice, and are recognized as literary treasures. Ranade was primarily interested in the poet-saints as mystics--teachers of the perennial philosophy--whose experiences have general metaphysical and religious implications. At the heart of his classic is a comprehensive, objective presentation of the thought of these saints, augmented by a deep appreciation of their value and relevance to present-day scholars and seekers. Mysticism in India is the only major study in English of medieval Indian religious literature. The book's enduring value has been enhanced by the addition of a foreword by a scholar currently working in Marathi literature, and a preface by a present-day poet-saint of Maharashtra.
Author : John Stratton Hawley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Devotional poetry, Indic
ISBN : 0195668707
This Book Presents The Life Stories And Poems Of Six Well-Known Saint Poets Of North India Ravidas, Kabir, Nanak, Surdas, Mirabai Abd Tulsidas-Who Have Contributed More To The Religious Vocabulary Of Hinduism In North India Today Than Any Voices Before Or Since. The Author`S Deep Knowledge Of The Bhakti Traditions Of North India Is Evident Both In Their Choice Of Representative Poetry For Each Of The Six Saints And In The Rendering Of Their Poetry, Which Are So Skilfully Fashioned That One Can Easily Hear The Naunces Of Each Poet`S Voice In Registers Of Contemporary English.
Author : Nammalwar
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789351187141
‘Look, my feet measure beyond earth and sky!’ he said and touched the sky. I have surrendered to my lord who glanced at me with his large radiant eyes. The Tiruviruttam is an iconic poem by Nammāḻvār (c. ninth century CE), the greatest of the āḻvār poet-saints of the Tamil Śrīvaiṣṇava tradition. Its hundred interlinked verses celebrate the love between an anonymous heroine and hero, who come to be identified with Nammāḻvār and his beloved deity, Viṣṇu. The poet masterfully weaves the erotic and esoteric to reveal both the contours of love and the never-ending cycles of separation and union, of birth and death, from which only Viṣṇu can offer release. In A Hundred Measures of Time, Archana Venkatesan has crafted a sonorous free-verse rendering and an accompanying far-ranging essay to delight poetry lovers and scholars alike.
Author : Vidya Dehejia
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1990-08-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438400754
This book is a translation and study of the poems of a ninth-century woman saint and mystic. The Introduction is designed to make the translations accessible to a non-specialist audience, while the Notes provide insights into the poems and useful explications of allusions and convention with which readers who do not possess a specialized knowledge of Tamil Vaisnava bhakti may be unfamiliar.
Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780547737461
A major addition to the literature of poetry, Edward Hirsch’s sparkling new work is a compilation of forms, devices, groups, movements, isms, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore—a book that all readers, writers, teachers, and students of poetry will return to over and over. Hirsch has delved deeply into the poetic traditions of the world, returning with an inclusive, international compendium. Moving gracefully from the bards of ancient Greece to the revolutionaries of Latin America, from small formal elements to large mysteries, he provides thoughtful definitions for the most important poetic vocabulary, imbuing his work with a lifetime of scholarship and the warmth of a man devoted to his art. Knowing how a poem works is essential to unlocking its meaning. Hirsch’s entries will deepen readers’ relationships with their favorite poems and open greater levels of understanding in each new poem they encounter. Shot through with the enthusiasm, authority, and sheer delight that made How to Read a Poem so beloved, A Poet’s Glossary is a new classic.
Author : Sandhya Mulchandani
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789353055813
Between the third centuries BC and AD were written thousands of verses in Tamil that have collectively come to be known as Sangam literature. The expressions of love between a man and a woman in these love poems gave way to passionate expressions of devotional love, where the heroine became the devotee and the hero became God. Through the centuries of patriarchy, women negotiated varied levels of existence and largely went unnoticed until they found a path for self-expression through bhakti or devotion. While the dominant form of worship was to prostrate before God, women found innovative ways of personal expression, often seeing the lord as a lover, friend, husband, or even son. The individual outpourings and the unfettered voices of these women refused to be drowned in the din of patriarchy gathering momentum until this became a pan India movement. In For the Love of God, Sandhya Mulchandani delves deep into historical accounts of these women who fell in love with God.
Author : Mahīpati,Justin Edwards Abbott,Narhar R. Godbole
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8120804694
The present book is an English translation of Mahipati's Marathi poem Bhakta-Vijaya which records the legends of Indian saints, irrespective of their difference in caste, community, creed, language and place of origin. Thus we have the record of different saints - Yayadeva, Jnanadeva, Namadeva, Ramananda, Tulasidasa, Kabir, Suradasa, Narsi Mehta and Guru Nanakadeva. A lot of information is available on Ekanath-the greatest scholar-philosopher-saint-poet-cum-social reformer and the towering personalities Tukaram and Ramadasa. It also records the miraculous and fascinating legends of several saints, how they spread the Bhakti cult, how they struggled against discrimination between man and man and how they tried to uproot the malpractices which prevailed in the name of Religion in those days.
Author : Paul Smith
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1493513680
POET-SAINTS OF MAHARASHTRA: SELECTED POEMS Translations & Introductions Paul Smith From the 13th to the 17th century the state of Maharashtra in India gave birth to a number of great Poet-Saints whose lives and poetry is loved today as much as it was when they lived their lives of selfless devotion and praise of the Divine Beloved. They composed their poems in slokas and abhangs that are here in the correct form and meaning, with biographies and bibliographies. Janabai (1263-1350) was born to a couple from the lowest caste. She worked as a maidservant for the father of the Poet-Saint Namdev who she cared for throughout her life. Her poetry is replete with her love for God. Namdev (1270-1350) was born in Narasi-Bamani. Soon his family moved to Pandharpur where the temple of Lord Vithoba (Krishna as a boy) is located. He spent most his life there. He composed 2500 abhangs in Marathi. Dnyaneshwar (1275-1296) emerged as one the first original Poet-Saints to write in Marathi. He liberated 'divine knowledge' locked in Sanskrit to bring it into Marathi. At the age of 21 he entered into Sanjeevan Samadhi at Alandi. Mukta Bai (b.1279) was the younger sister of Dnyaneshwar but is a profound Poet-Saint in her own right. She wrote forty-one abhangs. Eknath (1533-1599) was a saint, scholar and poet. He is seen as a bridge between Dnyaneshwar and Namdev and Tukaram and Ramdas. Tukaram (1608-1654) was a prominent Poet-Saint during the Bhakti movement in India and is still greatly loved. Ramdas (1627-1682) was a Marathi Poet-Saint and a devotee of Lord Rama. Bahina Bai (1628-1700) was a disciple of Tukaram. Apart from her unique autobiography in verse she composed abhangs that deal with various subjects. Pages 198. COMMENTS ON PAUL SMITH'S TRANSLATION OF HAFIZ'S 'DIVAN'. "It is not a joke... the English version of ALL the ghazals of Hafiz is a great feat and of paramount importance. I am astonished. " Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr. of Literature) Tehran. "Superb translations. 99% Hafiz 1% Paul Smith." Ali Akbar Shapurzman, translator from English into Persian, knower of Hafiz's Divan off by heart. Paul Smith is a poet, author and translator of over 130 books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages... including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, 'Attar, Sana'i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Mu'in, Amir Khusrau, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Omar Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Mahsati, Lalla Ded, Bulleh Shah, Ghalib, Iqbal and many others, as well as his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books and a dozen screenplays.
Author : John Stratton Hawley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674425286
A widely-accepted explanation for India’s national unity is a narrative called the bhakti movement—poet-saints singing bhakti from India’s southern tip to the Himalayas between 600 and 1600. John Hawley shows that this narrative, with its political overtones, was created by the early-twentieth-century circle around Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal.
Author : Neeti M. Sadarangani
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bhakti
ISBN : 8176254363
This Text Is An Attempt To Reconstruct The Bhakti Movement From The 8Th Century Tamil Nadu To The 16Th Century Punjab, In Its Totality, As A Connected Organic Phenomenon And As Perhaps The Earliest Indian Voice Of Deconstructive Modern Thought.
Author : Paul Smith
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1493523481
Abhangs & Bhajans of the Greatest Indian Poet-Saints Translations & Introductions Paul Smith From the 13th to the 17th century India gave birth to a number of great Poet-Saints whose lives and poetry is loved today as much as it was when they lived their lives of selfless devotion and praise of the Divine Beloved. They composed their poems in abhangs & bhajans that are here in the correct form and meaning, with biographies and bibliographies. Janabai (1263-1350) was born from the lowest caste. Her poetry reveals her love for God. Namdev (1270-1350) moved to Pandharpur where the temple of Lord Vithoba (Krishna as a boy) is located. He composed 2500 abhangs. Mukta Bai (b.1279) was the younger sister of Saint Dnyaneshwar but is a profound Poet-Saint in her own right. She wrote forty-one abhangs. Nanak (1469-1539) preached God as Supreme, Universal, All-powerful and truthful. He upheld the cause of women, downtrodden and poor. He wrote 947 poems. Surdas (1478-1581) praised Lord Krishna. It is said that he was born in Braj. He is known for his greatest work ... the Sur Sagar. Mira Bai (1498-1563) was a Rajput princess. Her powerful, beautiful bhajans are collected in her Padavali. Eknath (1533-1599) was a saint, scholar and poet. He is a bridge between Dnyaneshwar, Namdev, Tukaram and Ramdas. Dadu (1544-1603) was a Poet/Saint from Gujarat. 'Dadu' means brother, and 'the compassionate one'. Tukaram (1608-1654) was a great Poet-Saint during the Bhakti movement in India and is still much loved. Ramdas (1627-1682) was a Marathi Poet-Saint and a devotee of Lord Rama. Bahina Bai (1628-1700) was a disciple of Tukaram. She wrote a unique autobiography and abhangs that deal with various subjects. Pages 214. COMMENTS ON PAUL SMITH'S TRANSLATION OF HAFIZ'S 'DIVAN'. "It is not a joke... the English version of ALL the ghazals of Hafiz is a great feat and of paramount importance. I am astonished. " Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr. of Literature) Tehran. "Superb translations. 99% Hafiz 1% Paul Smith." Ali Akbar Shapurzman, translator from English into Persian, knower of Hafiz's Divan off by heart. Paul Smith is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages... including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, 'Attar, Sana'i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Mu'in, Amir Khusrau, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Omar Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, and many others, as well as his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books and more than a dozen screenplays. www.newhumanitybooksbookheaven.com
Author : A. K. Ramanujan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0140442707
The Vacanas Or Free-Verse Lyrics Written By Four Major Saints Of The Great Bhakti Protest Movement Which Originated In The Tenth Century Ad. Composed In Kannada, A Dravidian Language Of South India, The Poems Are Lyrical Expressions Of Love For The God Siva. They Mirror The Urge To Bypass Tradition And Ritual, To Concentrate On The Subject Rather Than The Object Of Worship, And To Express Kinship With All Living Things In Moving Terms. Passionate, Personal, Fiercely Monotheistic, These Free Verses Possess An Appeal, Which Is Timeless And Universal.
