In this multifaceted work, John Carman and Vasudha Narayanan clarify historical developments in South Asian religion and make important contributions to the methodology of textual interpretation and the comparative study of world religions.
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The devotees of Visnu and his consort Sri became organized as a religious community in South India about the time of Ramanuja (circa 1017-1137 C.E.), the most important Srivaisnava teacher (acarya). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
flowerlike feet, other auspicious attributes, phala srutis, auspicious feet, banyan leaf, auspicious qualities, sacred feet, lovesick maiden, other divine beings, finite soul, commentarial tradition, cowherd girls, inner controller, radiant flame, sole enjoyment, first ten verses, whose essential nature, girl poems, gracious condescension, supreme heaven, divine weapons, devotional experience, dual tradition, sweet poems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Supreme Person, Sacred Celestial City, Tamil Veda, Translations of Selected Decads, Ubhaya Vedanta, Lord Visnu, Sanskrit Vedas, Vedanta Sutras, Kali Yuga, Parasara Bhattar, Vedanta Desika, Periya Tirumoli, South India, Kurukúr Catakopan, City of Names, Friedhelm Hardy, God Muruga, Pillai Lokacarya, Ramanuja's Sanskrit, Saranágati Gadya, Tirukkurukai Piran Pillan, Krta Yuga, Lady Nappinnai, Lord Krishna, Nammálvár's Tiruváymoli New!
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The devotees of Visnu and his consort Sri became organized as a religious community in South India about the time of Ramanuja (circa 1017-1137 C.E.), the most important Srivaisnava teacher (acarya). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
flowerlike feet, other auspicious attributes, phala srutis, auspicious feet, banyan leaf, auspicious qualities, sacred feet, lovesick maiden, other divine beings, finite soul, commentarial tradition, cowherd girls, inner controller, radiant flame, sole enjoyment, first ten verses, whose essential nature, girl poems, gracious condescension, supreme heaven, divine weapons, devotional experience, dual tradition, sweet poems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Supreme Person, Sacred Celestial City, Tamil Veda, Translations of Selected Decads, Ubhaya Vedanta, Lord Visnu, Sanskrit Vedas, Vedanta Sutras, Kali Yuga, Parasara Bhattar, Vedanta Desika, Periya Tirumoli, South India, Kurukúr Catakopan, City of Names, Friedhelm Hardy, God Muruga, Pillai Lokacarya, Ramanuja's Sanskrit, Saranágati Gadya, Tirukkurukai Piran Pillan, Krta Yuga, Lady Nappinnai, Lord Krishna, Nammálvár's Tiruváymoli New!
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- Hymns for the drowning: Poems for Visnu (Princeton library of Asian translations) by Nammalvar on 5 pages
- Poets of the Tamil Anthologies (Princeton Library of Asian Translations) by George L. Hart on 4 pages
- Interior Landscape by A K Ramanujan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology (Oxford India Paperbacks) by A. K. Ramanujan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Poems of Ancient Tamil: Their Milieu and Their Sanskrit Counterparts by George L. Hart in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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