Summary
Speaking of Siva is a selection of vacanas or free-verse sayings from the Virasaiva religious movement, dedicated to Siva as the supreme god. Written by four major saints, the greatest exponents of this poetic form, between the tenth and twelfth centuries, they are passionate lyrical expressions of the search for an unpredictable and spontaneous spiritual vision of ‘now’.
Here, yogic and tantric symbols, riddles and enigmas subvert the language of ordinary experience, as refe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140442700 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140442707 |
| Author: | A. Ramanujan |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 29 June 2006 |
| Weight: | 162g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 133mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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A. Ramanujan
A. K. Ramanujan (1929-1993) was an Indian poet and scholar. He wrote in both English and Kannada. He was a professor at the University of Chicago for many years, where he taught in several departments, including South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Linguistics, and the Committee on Social Thought. Ramanujan was a renowned translator of classical and medieval Tamil and Kannada poetry. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1983. His notable works include The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology, Speaking of Shiva, and Hymns for the Drowning: Poems for Vishnu.
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