Indira Viswanathan Peterson is a scholar of Tamil literature and religion, and this Princeton University Press book is her scholarly study and translation of the Tevaram, the devotional hymns of the Tamil Saiva saints, combined with historical and literary analysis of the bhakti tradition that produced them. Its strength is that it presents both a careful translation and the historical context needed to understand these hymns' place within Tamil Saiva devotional practice, rather than treating them as isolated poetry. Its limit is that it is a specialist study of this specific Tamil devotional corpus, so a claim about the Tamil language or the wider Dravidian language family in general, outside this particular religious and literary context, needs a linguistics source rather than this study of devotional poetry.
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Source-type Scholarly study, never tiered before; matched to the academic-press-monograph shape (Princeton University Press). NotesIndira Viswanathan Peterson's scholarly study and translation of the Tevaram, the Tamil Saiva devotional hymns, with historical and literary analysis. Use for established scholarly facts about the Tevaram and Tamil Saiva bhakti tradition; a specialist academic study, not a general source on the Tamil language or the wider Dravidian language family.
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AuthorIndira Viswanathan Peterson
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Publication Year1989
URLhttps://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781400860067/html?lang=en
Source TypeScholarly study
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