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Slaves of the Lord
Lives and poetry of Tamil saints.
Hymns of the Tamil Śaivite Saints
A Collection of hymns from the Tamil hymn compendiums called Devaram and Tiruvachagam. The first of these is held to be canonical by the Tamil saivites. The hyms of the Devaram were composed by 3 authors- Sambandar, appariswami and sundaramurti and written between the 6th and 8th centuries A.D. The Tiruvachagam was composed by Manikya Vachaka at an uncertain date. This book is a collection of 136 stanzas and offers a short note on the poets before the start of their hymns. This book is a reprint of the 1921 edition.
Poems to Siva
Composed by three poet-saints between the sixth and eighth centuries A.D., the Tevaram hymns are the primary scripture of the Tamil Saivism, one of the first popular large-scale devotional movements within Hinduism. Indira Peterson eloquently renders into English a substantial portion of these hymns, which provide vivid and moving portraits of the images, myths, rites, and adoration of Siva and which continue to be loved and sung by the millions of followers of the Tamil Saiva tradition. Her introduction and annotations illuminate the work's literary, religious, and cultural contexts, making this anthology a rich sourcebook for the study of South Indian popular religion. Indira Peterson high...
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