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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
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    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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