The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism

Ra ̄ma ̄yan.am shows the certain hegemony of Brahmanical models over this lin- guistic and religious community: Discarding egoti ...

address to the audience, and these developed their own genres ranging from prose retellings (gadyam) in a lexically Sanskritic b ...

manism and within it, that tend to fragment adherence to any monolithic set of social-literary norms. They derive their strength ...

The locally Dravidian impulses of the theater finally break out, in the seven- teenth century, colonizing the Sanskrit frames th ...

ern work, throughout the region of Kerala. The text itself declares that it was composed by a S ́u ̄ dra, that “reading and reci ...

from other works (and of them from this), as well as repeated references to an audience and to the context of a Ra ̄ma festival ...

Vedic learning. Importantly, this suggests that not all Brahmans shared in the elite structures of socio-religious and political ...

society and hold them up for critique against the projected religious values.^15 The roles of Epic kings, soldiery, and Brahmans ...

the impetus of bhakti,exerted a persistent vernacular pressure from below. We have seen how with time, the distance between the ...

6 References to chapter (vr.ttam) and verse numbers follow the edition of Kr.s.n.an Na ̄ yar (1979). 7 For instance, one might c ...

——, ed. 1996. Ko ̄kasande ̄s ́am: Pat.hanavum Vya ̄khya ̄navum.Kottayam, Kerala: Current Books. Gurukkal, R. 1992. The Kerala Te ...

Ra ̄ macandran Na ̄ yar, K., ed. 1969. Vais ́ikatantram.Trivandrum, Kerala: Author. Ramanujan, A. K. 1967. The Interior Landscap ...

CHAPTER 9 North Indian Hindi Devotional Literature Nancy M. Martin How to trade in rubies and diamonds, My blessed guru has show ...

shipping God as beyond form and distinction, I recorded this song in 1997 in western Rajasthan. A member of a very low caste of ...

all awareness of themselves as separate, in an experience akin to possession by the divine beloved. This passionate and intoxica ...

of temple devotion. In many cases the saints sing of both God with form (sagun.) and without or beyond form (nirgun.) and juxtap ...

Particular movements emerged in different regions at different times, each with its own set of saints, although later movements ...

teachings, and among his supposed disciples are Kabı ̄r the weaver, Raida ̄s the leatherworker, Sen the barber, and Dhana the bu ...

Early records of Kabı ̄r’s songs are found in three distinct sources (Hess 1987). TheBijakcontains only his works (Hess and Shuk ...

early date (1604 ce) and clear history, it is a primary source of early bhakti literature (Callewaert 2000a, McLeod 1989: 82–101 ...