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Andal and Akka Mahadevi: Feminity to Divinity / Tyagi, Alka
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Andal and Akka Mahadevi: Feminity to Divinity
Tyagi, Alka
 
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  Book ID : 42395
  ISBN-10 : 81-246-0716-8 / 8124607168
  ISBN-13 : 978-81-246-0716-9 / 9788124607169
  Place of Publication : Delhi
  Year of Publication : 2014
  Edition : (First Edition)
  Language : English
  xvii, 278p., App., Bib., Index, 23 cm.
   
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CONTENTS:-

Section One:
1. Ancient Religions and Emergence of Bhakti
2. Evolution of Bhakti in South India
3. Allvar Bhakti and Srivaishnavism
4. Nayannmar Bhakti and Virashaivism

Section Two:
5. Bhakti Poetry: Intersemiotic Transformations
6. Andal: Srivaishnavite Woman Alvar Saint
7. Transformations in Andal's Life and Work
8. Akka Mahadevi: Virashaivite Woman Saint
9. Transformations in Akka's Life and Work

Section Three:
10. Living Bhakti Traditions

Appendices:
Appendix A - Bhakti Poetry and Bhakti Experience: A State of Mind and a Way of Being
Appendix B - Tiruppavai: The Sacred Vow by Andal
Appendix C - Akka Mahadevi's Vacanas

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Bhakti poetry is an amazing amalgamation of art, music, literature, philosophy, politics, soteriology and mysticism. Andal and Akka Mahadevi: Feminity to Divinity reflects this amalgamation in letter and spirit. Two medieval women, Andal, a ninth-century A’lvar saint-poetess from Tamil Srivaisnavite tradition, and Akka Mahadevi, a twelfth-century Kannada saint-poetess from Virasaivite tradition, with their poetic renderings and life, got elevated to a stature beyond that of saints.

This book deals with three major aspects. One, understanding of bhakti in its historical, philosophical and social perspectives. It thus delves on the idea and phenomenon of bhakti, the ancient religions and the evolution of bhakti tradition in south India. Two, it portrays the life of poet-saints Andal and Akka Mahadevi and their chosen path of bhakti. Their poetic renderings - Tiruppavai and Nachiar Tirumo’li of Andal, and vacanas of Akka Mahadevi - have found merit in rituals, theatre, cinema, dance, painting and other arts. The textual analysis of their poetry is done from religious, literary and socio-political angles. Three, it reflects on how the works of these saints have percolated down to the living patterns in modern India; rather it is a dedication to the living traditions in bhakti.

This volume also helps to extricate bhakti experience from its mystical aura and make it more accessible to our perceptive faculties. Thus it enthuses the spirit of anyone, be an artist, a poet, a philosopher, or a scholar.

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