summary of the poem seesaw watermills bow their heads by Basavanna.
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book excerptise: a book unexamined is wasting trees
A. K. Ramanujan and bAsavaNNa and devara dAsimayyA and mahAdeviyakka and a
Speaking of Siva
llAma prabhu
Ramanujan, A. K.; bAsavaNNa; devara dAsimayyA; mahAdeviyakka; allAma prabhu;
Speaking of Siva [Śiva]
Penguin Classics 1973, 199 pages
ISBN 0140442707 (? college street ?1996? )
topics: | poetry | india-medieval | kannada | translation | bhakti | anthology

At one level, this is a set of well-rendered translations from medieval Kannada devotional poetry (vacanas); at another level it is a tour-de-force presenting the Virashaiva reform movement; it is many of these "little" reform movements that constitute the religious practice of most Hindus today, rather than the Sanskritic texts.
The Virashaiva was an 11th c. bhakti cult from Karnataka inspired by movements in Tamil regions such as Ramanuja's saraNagati (surrender) and the vaishNavism of the sudra saint Nammalvar (see Ramanujan's excellent Hymns for the Drowning). In the words of V. Raghavan (from Theodore M. Bary's Sources of Indian tradition):
Explanation:
book excerptise: a book unexamined is wasting trees
A. K. Ramanujan and bAsavaNNa and devara dAsimayyA and mahAdeviyakka and a
Speaking of Siva
llAma prabhu
Ramanujan, A. K.; bAsavaNNa; devara dAsimayyA; mahAdeviyakka; allAma prabhu;
Speaking of Siva [Śiva]
Penguin Classics 1973, 199 pages
ISBN 0140442707 (? college street ?1996? )
topics: | poetry | india-medieval | kannada | translation | bhakti | anthology

At one level, this is a set of well-rendered translations from medieval Kannada devotional poetry (vacanas); at another level it is a tour-de-force presenting the Virashaiva reform movement; it is many of these "little" reform movements that constitute the religious practice of most Hindus today, rather than the Sanskritic texts.
The Virashaiva was an 11th c. bhakti cult from Karnataka inspired by movements in Tamil regions such as Ramanuja's saraNagati (surrender) and the vaishNavism of the sudra saint Nammalvar (see Ramanujan's excellent Hymns for the Drowning). In the words of V. Raghavan (from Theodore M. Bary's Sources of Indian tradition):