TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peterson,Indira Viswanathan
TI  - Poems to Siva: the Hymns of the Tamil Saints
T2  - Princeton Library of Asian Translations
SN  - 9781400860067
AV  - BL1218.2 
U1  - 294.5/43 19
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Siva
KW  - Śaivism
KW  - India
KW  - Tamil Nadu
KW  - Śivaïsme
KW  - Inde
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Hinduism
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - Prayers and devotions
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Cover; Contents; Preface; A Note on Transliteration; Part 1 Introduction: Poetry and Religion in the Songs of the Tamil Śaiva Saints; Part 2 An Anthology of Hymns from the Tēvāram ; Appendixes
N2  - Composed by three poet-saints between the sixth and eighth centuries A.D., the Tevaram hymns are the primary scripture of the Tamil Saivism, one of the first popular large-scale devotional movements within Hinduism. Indira Peterson eloquently renders into English a substantial portion of these hymns, which provide vivid and moving portraits of the images, myths, rites, and adoration of Siva and which continue to be loved and sung by the millions of followers of the Tamil Saiva tradition. Her introduction and annotations illuminate the work's literary, religious, and cultural contexts, makin
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