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Poems to Siva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints

 
Indira Viswanathan Peterson (Author)
Synopsis Composed by three poet-saints between the sixth and eighth centuries A.D., the Tevaram hymns are the primary scripture of 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 the South Indian popular religion. Indira Peterson highlights the Tevaram as a seminal Text in Tamil cultural history, a synthesis of pan-Indian and Tamil civilization, as well as a distinctly Tamil expression of the love of song, sacred landscape, and ceremonial religion. Her discussion of this work draws on her pioneering research into the performance of the hymns and their relation to the art and ritual of the South Indian temple.
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About the author

Indira Viswanathan Peterson

Indira Viswanathan Peterson is David B. Truman Professor Asian Studies at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts. A specialist in Sanskrit and Tamil literature and South Indian history, she has published widely, including Poems to Siva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints, and articles in previous Marg volume: Eternal Kaveri, Chidambaram: Home of Naaraja and Portraits in Princely India 1700-1947. Her most recent research is on literature and culture in Thanjavur in the Maratha period. Her monograph Serfoji II of Tanjore: Enlightement, Modernity, Cosmopolitisam is forthcoming.

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Bibliographic information

Title Poems to Siva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints
Format Hardcover
Date published: 01.01.2007
Edition Reprint
Language: English
isbn 9788120807846
length xvi+382p., Appendices; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.