The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism

as the poet takes the hearer also from the ordinary world into sudden recogni- tion of the divine. Other songs recount with wond ...

composed in the ninth or tenth century in South India, casts this narrative in a devotional light, particularly in book X which ...

century. More than ten thousand lines in length, this devotional epic poem recounts the adventures of Ra ̄m, with an elaborate s ...

station should, singing and dancing in public temples and conversing with holy men and people from all castes. In her deeply per ...

And in still other songs she addresses the ruler of Mewar, the rana(usually identified as her earthly husband though sometimes s ...

(paricay) and recount the miracles (paraca) that surround their lives (Callewaert 1994, 2000b; Lorenzen 1991, 1996). Sikh collec ...

References Abbott, Justin E. and Godbole, N. R., trans. 1988. Stories of Indian Saints: Translation of Mahipati’s Marathi Bhakta ...

—— and Juergensmeyer, Mark. 1988. Songs of the Saints of India. New York: Oxford University Press. Hess, Linda. 1987. “Three Kab ...

Ramanujan, A. K. 1973. Speaking of Siva.Delhi: Penguin. ——. 1982. “On Women Saints,” in The Divine Consort: Radha and the Goddes ...

Major Historical Developments ...

CHAPTER 10 The S ́aiva Traditions Gavin Flood S ́aiva traditions are those whose focus is the deity S ́iva and a S ́aiva is a Hi ...

developments of S ́aivism during most of the last millennium, which includes the Na ̄th tradition, the traditions of later north ...

least the indigenous account of tradition shows how the transmission of know- ledge was perceived in a particular social context ...

embodiment of this tradition and who is the channel of divine grace (anugraha) to the community of disciples. The guru lineage o ...

of a different tradition might be quoted with approval, it is generally only regarded as a truth emanating from the level of the ...

families and livestock, but yet who is also a benevolent healer of disease (R.g Veda 2.33, 1.43; 1.114). A famous hymn in the R. ...

In contrast to the brahmin householder who followed the puranic, Sma ̄rta injunctions, a number of other S ́aiva groups are list ...

of a young brahmin that had been cast into a cremation ground and reanimated it as Lakulı ̄s ́a, the “Lord of the staff,” who th ...

were especially dominant in Karnataka during the eleventh to thirteenth centuries. Indeed they were an important group here, att ...

a guru, but also contain sections on temple building, architecture, and occa- sional rites such as funerals. Indeed, each Tantra ...