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Synopsis The Sacred Songs of India Volume Five like its four predecessor volumes, encompasses selections from the4 lifework of ten mystic poet-saints of India. The mystic poet-sages includes in this volume lived between 7th and 19th century and came from such diverse regions of India as Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Kerala, Punjab, Maharashtra and Bengal. They are: Perialwar, the doyen of Alwars, Tirujnansasambandhar, the Saivite spiritual prodigy, Mahadevi Akka, the Veerasaivite Karnataka saint, Vallabhacharya, the Vaishnavite saint, who founded the pushti marga in the Bhakti cult, Dadu Dayal, the Muslim saint who sang of the love-sports of Lord Krishna, Poontanam and Narayana Bhattadiri, the two Kerala contemporary saints who sang of the glory of the Deity in the Guruvayoor temple of Kerala, Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth Sikh Guru, Samartha Ramadas, the Maharashtra saint who was a contemporary of Shivaji and Ramprasad Sen, the Sakta saint of Bengal who poured out his burning devotion to the divine Mother in simple songs, sung even today all over Bengal. They sang in different languages: Tamil, Kannada, Saskrit, Hindi, Malayalam, Punjabi, Marathi and Bengali. But all of them sang of the glory of God, with whom each had an intense spiritual communion. This precious spiritual legacy bequeathed by the mystics of India will be perennial source of inspiration for all scholars of Indology and a limitless repertoire for the artists in the fields of music, dance, drama and ballet.