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Features the South Indian devotional poems that show the dramatic use of erotic language to express a religious vision. Written by men during the fifteenth to eighteenth century, the poems adopt a female voice, the voice of a courtesan addressing her customer.

Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction

The Songs
ANNAMAYYA
RUDRAKAVI
KSETRAYYA
SARAN GAP ANI
Poem to Lord
KONKANESVARA

Notes to the Text
Notes to the Songs
Index of Refrains

When God is a Customer

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    A Paperback / softback by A. K. Ramanujan, Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 15/04/1994
      ISBN13: 9780520080690, 978-0520080690
      ISBN10: 0520080696

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Features the South Indian devotional poems that show the dramatic use of erotic language to express a religious vision. Written by men during the fifteenth to eighteenth century, the poems adopt a female voice, the voice of a courtesan addressing her customer.

      Table of Contents
      Preface
      Introduction

      The Songs
      ANNAMAYYA
      RUDRAKAVI
      KSETRAYYA
      SARAN GAP ANI
      Poem to Lord
      KONKANESVARA

      Notes to the Text
      Notes to the Songs
      Index of Refrains

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