Author: G. VanmikanathanPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Pathway to God Through Tamil Literature: Through the Thiruvaachakam; an original interpretation and translation of the Thiruvaachakam
Author: G. VanmikanathanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Tamil Literature
Author: K.V. ZvelebilPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004492984
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Slaves of the Lord
Author: Vidya DehejiaPublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Lives and poetry of Tamil saints.
Lexicon of Tamil Literature
Author: K.V. ZvelebilPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004491732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 813
Book Description
Lexicon of Tamil Literature is a reference-dictionary of Tamil literature of South India from its early beginnings more than 2000 years ago until the present time (ca. 1980). It includes in the order of Roman alphabet names and short biographies of authors, lists of their works, anonymous literary works and most important matters of Tamil prosody, rhetoric and poetics. Whenever available, bibliographic data are given with individual entries in selection. Brief contents and evaluative statements are given with literary works of greater importance, whether ancient or modern. An introduction is included. The work is the first of its kind in a non-Indian language. It is an indispensable source of data and work of reference for Tamil literature in particular, and for the totality of Indic literatures in general.
Pathway to God Trod by Raamalinga Swaamikal
Author: G. VanmikanathanPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Biography of Swami Ramalinga, 1823-1874, Tamil saint poet; includes English translation of some verses of Swami Ramalinga.
Periya Puranam
Author: SekkizhaarPublisher: Sri Ramakrishna Math
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
The Tamil Devotional Classic Periya Puranam or “The Great Epic” by Sekkizhaar is the saga of the sixty-three Nayanmars or servitors of the Lord who not only lived for Him, on the other hand, adored Him in delightfully distinct ways. Lord Shiva whom these Saiva-Siddhantins worshiped is not a sectarian deity but the supreme creator preserver and destroyer of the Universe who comes in human form from time to time and ‘plays’ with these servitors when their devotion gets incandescent. These Nayanmars consists of devoted men and women of all ages and range from tribal hunters to emperors of vast domains. Caste, community, wealth, and status do not count with them even as they do not with the Lord. The trials and tribulations they cheerfully undergo and the incredible sacrifices they make for the Lord’s sake take our breath away. To pursue their stories is to inhale the air of sanctity and blessedness. Sri G.Vanmikanathan who has rendered the highlights of the original epic from Tamil to English with a racy running commentary is an experienced litterateur who has a number of other devotional works to his credit.
Hinduism
Author: SmithPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004378510
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Preliminary Material -- Transcription of Indian Words -- Introduction /Bardwell L. Smith -- Religious Experience and its Institutionalization -- Caitanya's Ecstasies and the Theology of the Name -- Caitanya's Followers and the Bhagavad-Gītā: A Case Study in Bhakti and the Secular /Joseph T. O'Connell -- The Transformation of Śrī Rāmakrishna /Walter G. Neevel -- The Rāmakrishna Math and Mission /Cyrus R. Pangborn -- Mixing in the Color of Rām of Rānujā /Mira Reym Binford -- The Medieval Bhakti Movement in History /Eleanor Zelliot -- New Interpretations in Epic Mythology -- Life Out of Death /J. Bruce Long -- The Burning of the Forest Myth /Alf Hiltebeitel -- Contributors -- Index.
The Cult of Draupadi, Volume 2
Author: Alf HiltebeitelPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226340470
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
This is the first volume of a projected three-volume work on the little-known South Indian folk cult of the goddess Draupadi and on the classical epic, the Mahabharata, that the cult brings to life in mythic, ritual, and dramatic forms. Draupadi, the chief heroine of the Sanskrit Mahabharata, takes on many unexpected guises in her Tamil cult, but her dimensions as a folk goddess remain rooted in a rich interpretive vision of the great epic. By examining the ways that the cult of Draupadi commingles traditions about the goddess and the epic, Alf Hiltebeitel shows the cult to be singularly representative of the inner tensions and working dynamics of popular devotional Hinduism.
Songs of Experience
Author: Norman CutlerPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253114198
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
"... a significant contribution to the field... great insight, learning, and clarity." -- George Hart III, University of California, Berkeley "A master's hand is behind this volume." -- Religious Studies Review "... eminently readable... artfully explains the initial spirit and modern understanding of Tamil bhakti poetry... " -- Pacific Affairs "Norman Cutler's major achievement in Songs of Experience is the new critical perspective he provides on bhakti poetry." -- The Journal of Religion Cutler reveals the link between Tamil poetry and religion. His fluent translations make the poems -- songs of the experience of God -- live for us as they did for their first audience nearly fifteen centuries ago.
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