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  2. Bhakti movement - Wikipedia

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    The Bhakti movement in Hinduism refers to ideas and engagement that emerged in the medieval era on love and devotion to religious concepts built around one or more gods and goddesses. The Bhakti movement preached against the caste system and used local languages and so the message reached the masses. One who practices bhakti is called a bhakta ...

  3. History of Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    This period saw the emergence of the Bhakti movement. The Bhakti movement was a rapid growth of bhakti beginning in Tamil Nadu in Southern India with the Vaisnava Alvars (3rd to 9th centuries CE) [170] and Saiva Nayanars (4th to 10th centuries CE) [171] who spread bhakti poetry and devotion throughout India by the 12th to 18th centuries CE ...

  4. Bhakti - Wikipedia

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    Bhakti ideas have inspired many popular texts and saint-poets in India. The Bhagavata Purana, for example, is a Krishna-related text associated with the Bhakti movement in Hinduism. [13] Bhakti is also found in other religions practiced in India, [14] [15] [16] and it has influenced interactions between Christianity and Hinduism in the modern era.

  5. Indian literature - Wikipedia

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    [28]: 1–2 From the 14th to the 18th centuries, India's literary traditions went through a period of drastic change because of the spread of the Bhakti movement in the northern parts of India, resulting in the emergence of devotional poets like Kabīr, Tulsīdās, and Guru Nānak. This period was characterised by a varied and wide spectrum of ...

  6. Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan - Wikipedia

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    He was a significant voice of the Bhakti movement in south India. [3] The Bhakti movement was a collective opposition to Brahmanical excesses and the moral and political decadence of the then-Kerala society. [3] The shift of literary production in Kerala to a largely Sanskritic, puranic religiosity is attributed this movement. [3] Ezhuthachan's ...

  7. Dasa sahitya - Wikipedia

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    Dasa Sahitya (Kannada: ದಾಸ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ) is a genre of literature of the bhakti movement composed by devotees in honor of Vishnu or one of his avatars. Dasa is literally servant in Kannada and sahitya is literature. Haridasas ("servants of God") were preachers of bhakti to Vishnu or one of his avatars.

  8. Bhagavata Sampradaya - Wikipedia

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    Historically, Bhagavatism corresponds to the development of a popular theistic movement in India, departing from the elitist sacrificial rites of Vedism, [7] and initially focusing on the worship of the Vrishni hero Vāsudeva in the region of Mathura. [1] It later assimilated into the concept of Narayana [8] where Krishna is conceived as svayam ...

  9. Vaishnavism - Wikipedia

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    The Haridasa movement, a bhakti movement originated from Karnataka is a sub-branch of Sadh Vaishnavism. [277] Sadh Vaishnavism worships Vishnu as the highest Hindu deity and regards Madhva, whom they consider to be an incarnation of Vishnu's son, Vayu, as an incarnate saviour. [278]