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The influence of the Tamil bhakti saints and those of later northern Bhakti leaders ultimately helped spread bhakti poetry and ideas throughout all the Indian subcontinent by the 18th century CE. [42] [49] However, outside of the Tamil speaking regions, the bhakti movement arrived much later, mostly in the second millennium.
Murti (idols, images) of different deities and saints In the Hindu tradition, a murti ( Sanskrit : मूर्ति , romanized : mūrti , lit. ' form, embodiment, or solid object ' ) [ 1 ] is a devotional image, such as a statue or icon, of a deity or saint [ 2 ] used during puja and/or in other customary forms of actively expressing ...
The achamanam is a ritual where these names are used while simultaneously touching the numerous parts of the body to purify them. The names form an important part of the Bhakti tradition, with saints such as Purandara Dasa having sung many devotional songs in their praise.
Traditionally, "sant" referred to devotional Bhakti poet-saints of two groups: Vaishnava and a group that is referred to as "Saguna Bhakti". [2] [3] Some Hindu saints are given god-like status, being seen as incarnations of Vishnu, Shiva, and other aspects of God, sometimes many years after their deaths. This explains another common name for ...
Alvar Saints (700–1000) Anandamayi Ma (30 April 1896 – 27 August 1982) Anasuya Devī, also known as Jillellamudi Amma(28 March 1923 – 12 June 1985) Andal (c.767), Tamil literature; Anukulchandra Chakravarty, also known as Sree Sree Thakur (1888–1969) Arunagirinathar (15th century A.D.) Avvaiyar (c. 1st and 2nd century AD), Tamil literature
These various compositions are generally called as Devaranamas (literally meaning names of the Lord) and are sung in the praise of the god Vishnu. These compositions have the concept of Hari Bhakti (devotion to God) at their core and they usually revolve around references to Hindu mythology and the Dvaita philosophy
Ramananda is credited as the author of many devotional poems, but like most Bhakti movement poets, whether he actually was the author of these poems is unclear. Two treatises in Hindi, Gyan-lila and Yog-cintamani are also attributed to Ramananda, as are the Sanskrit works Vaishnava Matabja Bhaskara and the Ramarchana Paddhati . [ 10 ]
Scholars acknowledge that Meera was one of the central poet-saints of the Bhakti movement, a period in Indian history rife with religious conflicts. Yet, they simultaneously question the extent to which Meera was a canonical projection of social imagination that followed, where she became a symbol of people's suffering and a desire for an ...