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He was a Lingayat and devotee of Sri Srikantha Malleswara in Srisailam. [6] He gave her daughter the name Molla, meaning "Jasmine", a favourite flower of the god, and also nicknamed her Basavi in respect to Basaveswara. Her parents were great devotees of Siva in his forms as Mallikarjuna and Mallikamba of Srisailam. [7]
There were, however, late nineteenth and early twentieth-century female devotees of Austen, especially in the New Woman movement and among women's suffrage activists. [ 6 ] During the 1930s and 1940s, when Austen's works were canonised and accepted as worthy of academic study, the term began to change meaning.
Mystra (/ ˈ m ɪ s t r ə / MIS-trə) [1] is a fictional goddess in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.. She is the Mistress of Magic and Mother of Mysteries who guides the Weave of magic that envelops the world.
Eilistraee, also referred to as "The Dark Maiden", is a fictional deity in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.In the game world, she is a goddess in the drow pantheon, and her portfolios are song, dance, swordwork, hunting, moonlight and beauty.
Akka Mahadevi (c. 1130–1160) was an early poet of Kannada literature [1] and a prominent member of the Lingayatism founded in the 12th century. [2] Her 430 vachanas (a form of spontaneous mystical poems), and the two short writings called Mantrogopya and the Yogangatrividh are considered her known contributions to Kannada literature. [3]
The devotees of this tradition primarily worship Lakshmi-Narayana as the ultimate duality, though they also revere their incarnations in the Dashavatara, including Sita-Rama and Rukmini-Krishna. [16] The Urdhva Pundra , the sacred mark they wear on their bodies, is conceived to be a combination of the white feet of Vishnu, and the red streak in ...
Catherine Arley, pen name of Pierrette Pernot (1922–2016), novelist and actress; Marie Célestine Amélie d'Armaillé (1830–1918), writer, biographer, and historian; Angélique Arnaud (1799–1884), novelist, essayist, and feminist; Madeleine de l'Aubespine (1546–1596), poet, literary patron, and one of the earliest female erotic poets
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Literature. It includes literature that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. The main article for this category is Women's writing (literary category) .