Material Devotion in a South Indian Poetic World. By Leah Elizabeth Comeau

Leah Elizabeth Comeau’s Material Devotion in a South Indian Poetic World offers a timely analysis of one of the most significant works of Śaiva bhakti or devotional literature from the Tamil-speaking southern part of India: the Tirukkōvaiyār, composed around the ninth century CE by the poet Māṇikkav...

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Main Author: Smith, Jason (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2021
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 89, Issue: 2, Pages: 780-783
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