Kabir Legends and Ananta-Das's Kabir Parachai

With a translation of the Kabir Parachai Prepared in Collaboration with Jagdish Kumar and Uma Thukral and with an Edition of the Niranjani Panthi Recension of this Work

David N. Lorenzen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

268 Seiten

1991
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-0461-4 (ISBN)

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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 Parachai. 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 reevaluated, and a solution is proposed to the longstanding debate about Kabir's dates.

David N. Lorenzen is Professor in the Center of Asian and African Studies of El Colegio de Mexico.

A Note on Transliteration

Preface

Part I: The Legends

1. Legends and History

2. The Kabir Parachai Cycle

3. Other Legends

Part II: Ananta-Das's Kabir Parachai

4. The Text of the Kabir Parachai

5. A Translation of the Kabir Parachai
By Jagdish Kumar, David N. Lorenzen, and Uma Thukral

6. An Edition of the Kabir Parachai (Niranjani Panthi recension)

Appendix A
The 1693 V. S. Manuscript (RPP 11583) of Ananta-das's Kabir Parachai

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.6.1991
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series in Hindu Studies
Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
ISBN-10	0-7914-0461-7 / 0791404617
ISBN-13	978-0-7914-0461-4 / 9780791404614
Zustand	Neuware