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Love songs in Hindu devotion – the Tamil poets who took on the female voice to express their intense longing for the divine

  • Written by Archana Venkatesan, Professor of Religious Studies and Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis
Love songs in Hindu devotion – the Tamil poets who took on the female voice to express their intense longing for the divineAn image of a reclining Lord Vishnu with the alvar poets arrayed below him. The Nadar Press Ltd., Sivakasi, ca. 1920s. From the personal print collection of Archana Venkatesan and Layne Little

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