Allama Prabhu and the Shaiva Imagination.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nagaraj, D. R.

Series:

SUNY Series in Hindu Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Allama Prabhu, active 12th century.

Kannada literature.

Philosophy, Indic.

Local Subjects:

Allama Prabhu, active 12th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2026.

Summary:

Engages with the life and ideas of the twelfth-century Shaiva mystic and philosopher-poet Allama Prabhu.In his last, profoundly innovative work, D.R.Nagaraj (1954-1998) engages with the twelfth-century Shaiva mystic and philosopher-poet Allama Prabhu, whose enigmatic writings have perplexed many and thus resisted analysis.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Translator's Introduction

Preamble

Nagaraj's Intellectual Journeys: How Did He Arrive at Allama?

The Shivasharana Phenomenon in the Kannada World

Allama in the Kannada Cultural Imagination: Premodern Narratives

Modern Studies on the Vachana Tradition and Allama

Nagaraj's Allama

Allama after Nagaraj

Translating Nagaraj, Translating Allama

1 A Historical Survey of Shaiva Darshanas

II

III

IV

2 Allama's World: The Foundations of Shaiva Poetics

3 Towards a New Poetics

4 Allama's Theory of the Body

5 Life Narratives of Allama: Three Models

I: Harihara and the Shunyasampadanekaras: Literary and Institutional Models

II: The Manteswamy Kavya, the Story of a Glowworm: A Folk Narrative Model

III: The Protest of the Jangamas

IV: The Process of Community Formation

6 Practical Criticism of Allama's Vachanas: Themes, Images, and Metaphors

I: Caste Defilement

II: History as a Prophecy of Creation

III: God is Dead

IV: Mysticism in the Company of Samashti

V: The Infant Called Tranquillity

VI: The Wounded Sun

VII: The Dead Hen Crowing

VIII: Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat

IX: Struggle and Friendship with Deluge

X: Unkind Towards Dogs

XI: The Story of the Frog

XII: Elders are the Gatekeepers of Lakshmi

XIII: They Drank the Blood of Perverted Spiritualism

XIV: Anti-Veda Stance

XV: Tiger and Deer as a Pair

7 Kings, Commoners, and Mystics: Understanding Premodern Kannada Literary Culture Through Allama's World

Select Bibliography

Primary Sources: Kannada

Allama's Vachanas

Other Vachana Anthologies

The Shunyasampadanes

Harihara's Ragalegalu

Chamarasa's Prabhulingalile

The Manteswamy Kavya

Other Primary Sources: Kannada

Secondary Sources: Kannada

Other South Asian Languages.

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Primary Sources: English Translations

Other Vachana Anthologies: English

Other Primary Sources: English

Secondary Sources: English

Index.

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ISBN:

979-88-558-0732-5

OCLC:

1584480291