Kabir Legends and Ananta-Das's Kabir Parachai

This book represents the first systematic collection and analysis of the principal legends about Kabir Das, a fifteenth-century poet-saint. It focuses on the ways in which the legends embody and reflect the often changing social and religious needs of those who created and listened to them. Particular attention is paid to the earliest known collection of legends, Ananta-das’s Kabir Parachat. This book makes available for the first time an English translation of this text, with detailed notes on its variant readings, as well as a corrected Hindi edition based on a comparison of over a dozen manuscripts.

‘The various historical synchronisms between Kabir and his leading contemporaries, including Ramananda and King Virasimhadev Baghel, are re-evaluated, and a solution is proposed to the longstanding debate about Kabir’s dates.

• ITEM CODE: NAT041
• AUTHOR: DAVID N. LORENZEN
• PUBLISHER: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK P
• LANGUAGE: ENGLISH AND HINDI
• EDITION: 1991
• ISBN: 0791404617
• PAGES: 270
• COVER: HARDCOVER
• OTHER DETAILS 9.00 X 6.00 INCH
• WEIGHT 540 GM

There is no exchange for this product.