Siva’s Saints The Origins of Devotion in Kannada According to Harihara’s Ragalegalu 1st edition by Gil Ben Herut 0190878863 9780190878863

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Author:   Gil Ben-Herut 

Comprising more than twelve million people and renowned for their resistance to Brahminical values, the Virasaivas are a vibrant and unorthodox religious community with a provocative socio-political voice. The Virasaiva tradition has produced a vast and original body of literature, composed mostly in Kannada, a Dravidian language from south India. Siva’s Saints introduces a previously unexplored and central primary work produced in the early thirteenth century, the Ragalegalu. This was the first narrative text written about the incipient devotional tradition dedicated to the god Siva in the Kannada-speaking regions; through stories of the saints, it images the life of this new religious community. The Ragalegalu inaugurated a new era in the production of devotional narratives accessible to wide audiences.Gil Ben-Herut challenges common notions about this tradition in its nascent phases. By closely reading the saints’ stories in this text, Siva’s Saints takes a more nuanced historical view than commonly-held notions about the egalitarian and iconoclastic nature of the early tradition, arguing instead that early bhakti (devotionalism) in the Kannada-speaking region was less-radical and more accommodating toward traditional religious, social, and political institutions than thought of today.In contrast to the narrowly sectarian and exclusionary vision that shapes later accounts, the Ragalegalu is characterized by an opposite impulse of offering an open invitation to people from all walks of life, and their stories illustrate the richness of their devotional lives. Analysis of this seminal text yields important insights into the role of literary representation of the social and political development of a religious community in a pre-modern and non-Western milieu.

Siva’s Saints: The Origins of Devotion in Kannada According to Harihara’s Ragalegalu 1st Table of contents:

1. The Poetics of Bhakti
Poet as Saint
Textual Experimentation in the Ragaḷegaḷu
The Doyen of a New Literary Era
The Complexities Within Harihara’s Legacy
A Devotional Literary Turn
2. Who Is a Bhakta?
Single-Minded Dedication
The Divine Devotee
God’s Ungracious Wife
Anthropocentric Devotion
3. The Society of Devotees
Qualifying Bhakti’s Egalitarian Voice
Religious-Based Nondiscrimination
Work and Its Felicities
Wealth Matters
Female Roles and Female Transgressions
4. A Bhakti Guide for the Perplexed Brahmin
Inverting Untouchability
Appropriating Vedic Knowledge
Commensality Practices and Dietary Rules
Cooking with Onion
Animal Killing and Meat Consumption
Reeducating the Educated
5. The King’s Fleeting Authority and His Menacing Vaiṣṇava Brahmins
Kings and Hagiography
The Devotee as the King’s Administrator
Sectarian Violence at the Court
Anti-Court but Pro-Treasury
Vaiṣṇava Brahmins as the Opponent Other
Politics, Patronage, and Devotion
6. Jains as the Intimate, Wholly Other
A Wave of Mutilation
Temple Fights
Jains as Śaivas’ Spouses
Food Contestations
Alienating an Intimate Rival

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