Composed by three poet-saints between the sixth and eighth
centuries A.D., the Tevaram hymns are the primary scripture of the
Tamil Saivism, one of the first popular large-scale devotional
movements within Hinduism. Indira Peterson eloquently renders into
English a substantial portion of these hymns, which provide vivid
and moving portraits of the images, myths, rites, and adoration of
Siva and which continue to be loved and sung by the millions of
followers of the Tamil Saiva tradition. Her introduction and
annotations illuminate the work's literary, religious, and cultural
contexts, making this anthology a rich sourcebook for the study of
South Indian popular religion.
Indira Peterson highlights the Tevaram as a seminal text in
Tamil cultural history, a synthesis of pan-Indian and Tamil
civilization, as well as a distinctly Tamil expression of the love
of song, sacred landscape, and ceremonial religion. Her discussion
of this work draws on her pioneering research into the performance
of the hymns and their relation to the art and ritual of the South
Indian temple.
Originally published in 1989.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
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