Songs for Siva: Vacanas of Akka Mahadevi

Songs for Siva: Vacanas of Akka Mahadevi

[Vinaya Chaitanya shows] an acute awareness of textual issues that never bothered earlier translators. From the foreword by H.S. Shivaprakash Hailed as an early feminist literary voice, Akka Mahadevi was born in twelfth-century Karnataka. As a child she was initiated into the worship of Channamallikarjuna, her village s version of Siva. She was forced to marry her region s ruler, but, because she had become so ardently devoted to the god, Akka abandoned her husband and all her possessions and wandered alone a naked poet-saint covered only by her long hair. Her vacanas, a new populist literary form meaning literally to give one s word demonstrate both her radical devotion to Siva and the radical commitment to equality her Virasaiva poetry embodied.
Country USA
Brand HarperCollins Children's Books
Manufacturer HARPER PERENNIAL
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9789352644100
EANs 9789352644100
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	HarperCollins Children's Books
Manufacturer	HARPER PERENNIAL
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9789352644100
EANs	9789352644100
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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