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A stunning collection of poems by Mirabai, the fifteenth-century female Indian ecstatic poet. Like Coleman Barks's translations of Rumi, this collection of poems by Mirabai will appeal to anyone interested in spiritual poetry.
Author : Robert Bly
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,38 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780807063866
A stunning collection of poems by Mirabai, the fifteenth-century female Indian ecstatic poet. Like Coleman Barks's translations of Rumi, this collection of poems by Mirabai will appeal to anyone interested in spiritual poetry.
Author : Shiri Ram Bakshi
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,11 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Hindu saints
ISBN :
Author : John Stratton Hawley
Publisher : Oxford India Paperbacks
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780195694208
In this volume the authors present the life stories and works of Ravidas, Kabir, Nanak, Surdas, Mirabai, and Tulsidas - six well-known 'saint-poets' of northern India who have contributed more to the religious vocabulary of Hinduism in the region today than any voices before or since.
Author : Mīrābāī
Publisher :
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Hindi literature
ISBN :
Author : Mīrābāī
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 1998
Category :
ISBN :
Illustrations: 1 B/w Illustration Description: Mira Bai belonged to the royal family of the Ranas of Mewara and was a staunch devotee of Krishna, worshipping him in the madhurya bhava of Vaishnavism. In the earlier part of her life she was ill-treated by her brother-in-law who even tried various means to kill her, but Krishna was ever her protector. Fed up, she went away to Merata, her maternal home and from there to Vrindavana and then to Dvaraka, where according to traditional belief, she merged with the image of Krishna. Mira's verses have a musical ring and a number of them have been recorded on discs and cassettes. There have been recessions of her padas. This English verse translation of eighty-one of them aims at giving the best of these. It is hoped that Mira's verses, along with the detailed introduction giving her life and times and her art, will create renewed interest in this renowned saint-poet.
Author : Mīrābāī
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 1980
Category :
ISBN : 9788120804418
ABOUT THE BOOK:THE DEVOTIONAL POEMS OF MIRABAI offers the reader a sober English translation of two hundred of her Padas, based on the interpretative work of Indian scholars that has appeared during the last few decades. Three introductory essays dea
Author : Nancy M. Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 12,72 MB
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0195153898
Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering love of God, her disregard for social hierarchies and gendered notions of honor and shame, and her challenge to familial, feudal, and religious authorities. Defying attempts to constrain and even kill her, she could not be silenced. Though verifiable facts regarding her life are few, her fame spread across social, linguistic, and religious boundaries, and stories about her multiplied across the subcontinent and the centuries. In Mirabai, Nancy M. Martin traces the story of this immensely popular Indian saint from the earliest manuscript references to her through colonial and nationalist developments to scholarly and popular portrayals in the decades leading up to Indian independence. This book examines Mirabai's place as both insider and outsider to the developing strands of devotional Hinduism and her role in contested terrain of debates around the education and independence of women and the crafting of Indian and Hindu identities. Mirabai offers a comprehensive and multi-layered portrait of this remarkable and still controversial woman, who continues to be a source of inspiration and catalyst for self-actualization for spiritual seekers, artists, activists, and so many others in India and around the world today.
Author : Sumita Roy
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Religious poetry, Indic
ISBN : 9788120718838
Author : John Stratton Hawley
Publisher : OUP India
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198085397
A fascinating story of change and transmission, this book describes how Mirabai, Surdas, and Kabir-the most famous and beloved poet-saints of fifteenth and sixteenth centuries-were heard and perceived in their own times and probes into the many beliefs and legends that emerged long after their deaths.
Author : Ken Seigneurie
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 3808 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Literature
ISBN : 9781118635193
A Companion to World Literature is a far-reaching and sustained study of key authors, texts, and topics from around the world and throughout history. Six comprehensive volumes present essays from over 300 prominent international scholars focusing on many aspects of this vast and burgeoning field of literature, from its ancient origins to the most modern narratives. Almost by definition, the texts of world literature are unfamiliar; they stretch our hermeneutic circles, thrust us before unfamiliar genres, modes, forms, and themes. They require a greater degree of attention and focus, and in turn engage our imagination in new ways. This Companion explores texts within their particular cultural context, as well as their ability to speak to readers in other contexts, demonstrating the ways in which world literature can challenge parochial world views by identifying cultural commonalities. Each unique volume includes introductory chapters on a variety of theoretical viewpoints that inform the field, followed by essays considering the ways in which authors and their books contribute to and engage with the many visions and variations of world literature as a genre. Explores how texts, tropes, narratives, and genres reflect nations, languages, cultures, and periods Links world literary theory and texts in a clear, synoptic style Identifies how individual texts are influenced and affected by issues such as intertextuality, translation, and sociohistorical conditions Presents a variety of methodologies to demonstrate how modern scholars approach the study of world literature A significant addition to the field, A Companion to World Literature provides advanced students, teachers, and researchers with cutting-edge scholarship in world literature and literary theory.