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Singing the body of God :

0195127358

9780195127355

b801905

Singing the body of God :

[Book]

the hymns of Vedāntadeśika in their South Indian tradition /

Steven Paul Hopkins.

New York :

Oxford University Press,

2002.

xx, 344 pages ;

25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-326) and index.

"Steven Paul Hopkins here offers a comparative study of the Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Tamil poems composed by Vedantadesika in praise of important Vaisnava shrines and their icons - poems that are considered to be the apogee of South Indian devotional literature. He examines the varied ways in which Vedantadesika the philosopher and logician works his thought through the distinctive - at times antithetical - medium of the poem. He also gives particular attention to the poems' emotional and visionary center of gravity: the different temple icons of Lord Vishnu, referred to by the poet simply as the various "lovely bodies" of God. In Singing the Body of God Hopkins brings to light a unique example of the creative synthesis of the Sanskrit and Tamil tradition in Medieval Tamil Nadu, and makes an important contribution to our understanding of intellectual and religious "cosmopolitanism" in South Asia."--Jacket.

Veṅkaṭanātha,1268-1369-- Criticism and interpretation.

Veṅkaṭanātha Vedāntācārya,1268-1369.

Veṅkaṭanātha,1268-1369

Venkatanatha,1268-1369-- Criticism and interpretation.

Veṅkaṭanātha.

Vishnu

Śrī Vaishṇava (Sect)-- History.

Vishnu (Hindu deity) in literature.

18.64 ancient Indian languages and/or literature.

18.65 middle and modern Indian language and/or literature.

18.88 Dravidian languages.

Literature.

Śrī Vaishṇava (Sect)

Śrī Vaishṇava (Sect)-- History.

Vishnu (Hindu deity) in literature.

Vishnuismus

Hopkins, Steven P.

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