Exercises
A. Fill in the blanks.
1. The Alvars emphasised love for
and the Nayanars emphasised love for
2. The word Sutism is derived from the Arabic word
3. The Alvars and Nayanars propounded Bhakti in the
wrote Ramcharitamanas.
5. Nirguna Bhakti believes in
region
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Answers
Answer:
word, Sufism derives from the Arabic term for a mystic, ṣūfī, which is in turn derived from ṣūf, “wool,” plausibly a reference to the woollen garment of early Islamic ascetics
Answer:
the answers are below.
Explanation:
1.Nayanars and Alvars. Nayanars were saints devoted to Shiva and Alvars were saints devoted to Vishnu
2.An abstract word, Sufism derives from the Arabic term for a mystic, ṣūfī, which is in turn derived from ṣūf, “wool,” plausibly a reference to the woollen garment of early Islamic ascetics
3.The Nayanars and Alvars led religious movements in south India during the seventh to ninth centuries. The Nayanars were devotees of Shiva while the Alvars were the devotees of Vishnu. They came from all castes including those considered 'untouchable like the Pulaiyar and the Panars. They preached the love of Shiva or Vishnu as the path to salvation. They went from place to place composing beautiful poems in praise of the deities enshrined in the villages they visited and set them to music. There were 63 Nayanars who belonged to different caste backgrounds. There were 12 Alvars who came from equally divergent backgrounds.
4.The Bhakti movement of Hinduism saw two ways of imaging the nature of the divine (Brahman) – Nirguna and Saguna. Nirguna Brahman was the concept of the Ultimate Reality as formless, without attributes or quality. Saguna Brahman, in contrast, was envisioned and developed as with form, attributes and quality
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