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God on the Hill - Temple Poems from Tirupati (Paperback)
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God on the Hill - Temple Poems from Tirupati (Paperback)
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The devotional poems of Annamaya (15th century) are perhaps the
most accessible and universal achievement of classical Telugu
literature, one of the major literatures of pre-modern India.
Annamaya effectively created and popularized a new genre, the short
padam song, which spread throughout the Telugu and Tamil regions
and would become an important vehicle for the composition of
Carnatic music - the classical music of South India. In this book,
Rao and Shulman offer translations of 150 of Annamaya's poems. All
of them are addressed to the god associated with the famous temple
city of Tirupati-Annamaya's home-a deity who is sometimes referred
to as "god on the hill" or "lord of the seven hills." The poems are
couched in a simple and accessible language invented by Annamaya
for this purpose. Rao and Shulman's elegant and lyrical modern
translations of these beautiful and moving verses are wonderfully
readable as poetry in their own right, and will be of great
interest to scholars of South Indian history and culture.
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