Siva's saints : the origins of devotion in kannada according to harihara's ragalegalu / by Gil Ben-Herut
Language: English Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 259 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780190944674 (hbd)
- 294.551 3 HER
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Comprising more than twelve million people and renowned for their resistance to Brahminical values, the Virasaivas are a vibrant and unorthodox religious community with a provocative socio-political voice. The Virasaiva tradition has produced a vast and original body of literature, composed mostly in Kannada, a Dravidian language from south India. Siva's Saints introduces a previously unexplored and central primary work produced in the early thirteenth century, the Ragalegalu. This was the first narrative text written about the incipient devotional tradition dedicated to the god Siva in the Kannada-speaking regions; through stories of the saints, it images the life of this new religious community. The Ragalegalu inaugurated a new era in the production of devotional narratives accessible to wide audiences.
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