Description
Book SynopsisAnantadas is the first ''biographer'' who, around 1600, wrote about the most popular bhakti poets of the 15th and 16th centuries in Northern India. This critical study of these manuscripts yields a broad spectrum of the linguistic and morphological variants. It also reveals the processes of oral and scribal transmission during this time when sectarian interests appropriated certain poets and changed their ''biographies'' accordingly.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: the early Hindi hagiographies by Anantadas; manuscripts used for this edition; earlier editions of paricayi literature; editorial methods; note on the Raghavadas Bhaktakamal. 1 the paracai of Namdev: English translation, Hindi text; 2 the paracai of Kabir: Hindi text; 3 the paracai of Dhana: English translation, Hindi text, Dhana in the Bhaktamal-s, pad-s of Dhana 4 the paracai of Trilochan: English translation, Hindi text, Trilochan in the Bhaktamal-s, Pad-s of Trilochan; 5 the paracai of Pipa: English translation, Hindi text, Pipa in the Bhaktamal-s, Pad-s of Pipa, the Pipa citavani; 6 the paracai of Raidas: English translation, Hindi text; 7 the paracai of Angad: English translation, Hindi text, Angad in the Bhaktamal-s, Pad-s of Angad; 8 the paracai of Seu Saman.
