Approaching the divine : the integration of Āl̲vār Bhakti in Śrīvaiṣṇavism
Material type: TextPublication details: Delhi Primus books 2015Description: xv, 342 pISBN: 9789384082130Subject(s): Śrī Vaishṇava (Sect) | Alvars | BhaktiDDC classification: 294.5512 Summary: Approaching the Divine: The Integration of ??v?r Bhakti in ?r?vai??avism is situated in the context of the ongoing scholarly debate regarding the historical evolution of Tamil ?r?vai??avism. This study spans the period from the second half of the first millennium, i.e. the bhakti period to the period of consolidation of the scriptural and sectarian tradition in the first half of the second millennium. Traditionally, the lives of the bhakti saints have been used to understand their hymns. Examination of these hagiographies through the lenses of theology, caste, sectarian conflict and popular legends, however, suggests that these life stories might themselves be constructs of the latter period, and are governed by socio-economic and political impulses as much as by spiritual ones. This work attempts to trace the process whereby a Sanskritic brahmanical tradition and a devotional Tamil folk tradition were knit together, arguing that the ways in which the saint-poets' hymns were interpreted and integrated contained elements of both continuity and change.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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294.544 RAM/A Art of joyful living | 294.551 3 SUB/D Dancing with Siva : Hinduism's contemporary catechism | 294.551 4 KIN/T Tantra : the way of action | 294.5512 BHA/A Approaching the divine : the integration of Āl̲vār Bhakti in Śrīvaiṣṇavism | 294.555 BHA/F From the unreal to real | 294.555 HIT/W Worship of Ramakrishna | 294.555 SAY Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: An exhaustive collection |
Approaching the Divine: The Integration of ??v?r Bhakti in ?r?vai??avism is situated in the context of the ongoing scholarly debate regarding the historical evolution of Tamil ?r?vai??avism. This study spans the period from the second half of the first millennium, i.e. the bhakti period to the period of consolidation of the scriptural and sectarian tradition in the first half of the second millennium. Traditionally, the lives of the bhakti saints have been used to understand their hymns. Examination of these hagiographies through the lenses of theology, caste, sectarian conflict and popular legends, however, suggests that these life stories might themselves be constructs of the latter period, and are governed by socio-economic and political impulses as much as by spiritual ones. This work attempts to trace the process whereby a Sanskritic brahmanical tradition and a devotional Tamil folk tradition were knit together, arguing that the ways in which the saint-poets' hymns were interpreted and integrated contained elements of both continuity and change.
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