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Rajasthan: Mirabai And Her Poetry, Nancy M. Martin Jun 2007

Rajasthan: Mirabai And Her Poetry, Nancy M. Martin

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"Mirabai (born c. 1500) is among the most well-known and loved of the Hindu women saints devoted to Krishna. Her devotion to her Lord is absolute, as her life and songs attest. Her story is a romantic tale of star-crossed lovers—one human, the other divine—marked by perseverance and triumph in the midst of great suffering. Songs sung in her name speak of the joys and trials of the devotional life and evoke the full range of romantic love, from the devastating longing that marks separated lovers and the blazing anger of a woman betrayed to the sweet and intoxicating pleasures …


Mirabai In The Academy And The Politics Of Identity, Nancy M. Martin Feb 2000

Mirabai In The Academy And The Politics Of Identity, Nancy M. Martin

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