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Capital : Bengaluru. He also used his poems to criticize fellow devotees and poets. Writings on Allamaprabhu [ edit ]. Web-sources [ edit ].

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The Oxford India Ramanujan. If the fields are naked, what will they clothe them with? In Ayyappapanicker ed. Encyclopaedia of Indian literature. Look, another came to chew close by When the trunk with no head grazes dry leaves, Look, all vanishes, O Guheswara. With Allama as its central figure, these anthologies give a vivid account of his interaction, in the form of dialogues, with contemporary saints and devotees.

In Sheldon I. A Kannada movie, Allama, was released this year, which became a huge success, and which bagged three National awards. Part of a series on. Lingayat and the vachanakaras [ edit ]. Allamaprabhu used poetry, now part of Vachana Sahitya literature, to criticise rituals and social conventions, to breakdown social barriers and to emphasize moral values and devotional worship of Shiva.

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Poems [ edit ]. Allama then used his art to express his thoughts about the society, and about his devotion to Shiva. Shipley, Vachana literature comprises pithy pieces of poetic prose in easy to understand, yet compelling Kannada language. Toggle the table of contents. About Us Profile Feedback. Sources [ edit ]. Early 12th century [ 1 ] Balligavi , Shimoga district , Karnataka , Bharat.

Rice characterises Vachana poems as brief parallelistic allusive poems, each ending with one of the popular local names of the god Shiva and preaching the common folk detachment from worldly pleasures and adherence to devotion to the god Shiva Shiva Bhakti. Allama Prabhu. On the interplay between the various Indian traditions, and the development of the Advaitic hegemony, see: Samuel, Geoffrey , The Origins of Yoga and Tantra.

OCLC In the words of the scholar Ramanujan, to a saint like Allama, "the butterfly has no memory of the caterpillar". During the fifteenth century Virashaiva priests consolidated the Virashaiva lore, over-emphasizing the theological and meta-physical aspects, and ignoring the socio-political aspects. Download as PDF Printable version.

Ramanujan, A. Seetharamaiah K. Poetry Chaikhana.