Title: The embodiment of bhakti
First published: 1999
Description: "Bhakti, an influential religious perspective in India, has long been of interest to scholars; from the orientalists, who drew upon Sanskrit sources in their definition of bhakti as devotion to a personal deity, to modern scholars, who have explored bhakti poetry and the legends of its authors through sources in the regional languages of India.

In this interpretive history of bhakti, both chronicle and comparison are used to identify and analyze bhakti as understood by various Tamil Siva-bhakti authors and authorities."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Bakhti in literature, Bhakti, Hindu literature, History, History and criticism, Religious poetry, Tamil, Tamil Religious poetry, Translations into English, Religious poetry, Bhakti in literature
LC classification: BL1214.32.B53 P75 1999