Anantadas is the first 'biographer' who, around 1600, wrote about the most popular bhakti poets of the 15th and 16th centuries in Northern India. This critical study of these manuscripts yields a broad spectrum of the linguistic and morphological variants. It also reveals the processes of oral and scribal transmission during this time when sectarian interests appropriated certain poets and changed their 'biographies' accordingly.
| ISBN: | 9781138862463 |
| Publication date: | 4th March 2015 |
| Author: | Winnand Callewaert |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 424 pages |
| Genres: |
Christianity Theology Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Hinduism Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 |