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In bhakti school literature, the term is typically used for any deity to whom prayers are offered. A particular deity is often the devotee's one and only Bhagavan. [2] The female equivalent of Bhagavān is Bhagavati. [4] [5] To some Hindus, the word Bhagavan is an abstract, genderless concept of God.
Molla is the second female Telugu poet of note, after Tallapaka Timmakka, wife of Tallapaka Annamayya ("Annamacharya"). She translated the Sanskrit Ramayana into Telugu. [1] Her father Atukuri Kesanna was a potter of Gopavaram, a village in Gopavaram Mandal near Badvel town, fifty miles north of Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh state.
Andal is the only female Alvar among the 12. Together with the contemporary 63 Shaivite Nayanars , they are among the most important saints from Tamil Nadu. The devotional outpourings of the Alvars, composed during the early medieval period of Tamil history , were the catalysts behind the Bhakti Movement through their hymns of worship to Vishnu ...
In literary and religious tradition, Periyalvar is an ardent devotee of Vishnu and he used to string garlands to Vishnu every day. He was childless and he prayed to Vishnu to save him from the longing for a child. One day, he found a girl under a Tulasi plant in the garden inside Sri Andal Rangamannar Temple, Srivilliputhur.
The name Ardhanarishvara means "the Lord Who is half woman." Ardhanarishvara is also known by other names like Ardhanaranari ("the half man-woman"), Ardhanarisha ("the Lord who is half woman"), Ardhanarinateshvara ("the Lord of Dance (Who is half-woman), [1] [2] Parangada, [3] Naranari ("man-woman"), Ammaiyappan (a Tamil Name meaning "Mother-Father"), [4] and Ardhayuvatishvara (in Assam, "the ...
While Sarada Devi remained completely in the background, her unassuming, warm personality attracted some female devotees to become her lifelong companions. [ 26 ] During Ramakrishna's last days, during which he suffered from throat cancer , Sarada Devi played an important role in nursing him and preparing suitable food for him and his disciples.
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.
Karaikal Ammaiyar (born Punītavatī), meaning "The Revered Mother of Karaikal", is one of the three women amongst the 63 Nayanmars and one of the greatest figures of early Tamil literature. She was born in Karaikal, South India, and probably lived during the 5th century AD. [1] She was a devotee of Shiva. [2] [3]