HUMA 1846 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lingayatism, Janabai, Bhakti Movement
25 Aug 2016
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Sacred and profane in ancient & medieval india. Selections from female bhakti poets: janabai (ca 1298-1350, marathi); mirabai (ca. Gujarati & vraj hindi); atukuri molla (early 16th cent. , telugu) Major characteristics of bhakti movement: devotional theism personal devotion to god, personal worship rather than sacrificial ritual, direct relationship bet. Rejection of the ideal of asceticism: worship of god with deep emotional expression. Hindu, kannada, etc. , not in sanskrit) vernaculars (in bengali, tamil, In their poems/songs, bhakti devotees/poets used a personal name or for form of god they worshipped;identified a particular characteristic (ex. Mirabai"s giridhar n gar for krishna) a n k i t a. Two major bhakti religious traditions: devotion to shiva (worshippers known as shaivites or shaivism; also. Virashaivism or lingayats: devotion to vishnu, especially in the popular avatars of krishna and ram known as vaishnavas; vaishnavism tradition; also bhagavata cult, also worship of mother goddess, e. g. kali.
