Table of Contents

Notes on the Transliteration & the Dates; The Four Sampradayas -- & Other Foursomes; Thematic Groupings of Bhakti Poetry: The Dadupanth & Sarvangi Literature; Nabhadas' Bhaktamal & Manuscript Culture; Sainthood Revisited: Two Printed Versions of the Lives of Eighty-four Vaishnavas of Gokulnath; On & Around the Story of Candrahasa: The Transmission of a Tale & Bhakti; Shiva & Parvati Assist Young Couples in their Marriage as Referred to in Hindi Devotional Literature & Folk Songs; Devotion Rewarded: The Attitude towards Wealth in the Religious Literature of Medieval Gujarat; Vaishnava Sampradayas on the Importance of Rituals: A Comparison of the Two Contemporaneous Approaches; ishra; Jayatram's Jogpradipaka: Between Hatha-yoga & Bhakti in the Eighteenth Century; From Sabda-brahman to Sabad: The Way from a Transpersonal Concept to Personal Experience; From Ontology to Aesthetics: A Bengal Vaishnava Interpretation of the Upanishadic Passage So'ham; Loving God through Sanskrit Grammar: Jiva Gosvami's Use of Krishna's Names in Harinamamrtavyakarana; God Outside & God Inside: North Indian Digambar Jain Performance of Bhakti; Kabir's Prosody & a Metrical Reconstruction of his Pads; The Language of Devotion: Transcending the Diversity of Linguistic Structures; 'Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend': The Female Body & Ornaments in Mirabai's Padavali; Matra in Bhakti Movement & Perso-Arabic Metres; Srnkhla: A System of Musico-Religious Performance of the Samaj-gayan in Braj; Appendix; Index of Names & Works.

About the Author

Imre Bangha is Lecturer in Hindi at the University of Oxford and Head of the Alexander Csoma de Koros Centre for Oriental Studies at Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania. His publications include English, Hindi and Hungarian books and articles on early Hindi with special focus on Rekhta literature as well as on the poetical works of Anandghan, Thakur, Visnudas, Tulsidas and Bajid.