Stories of Shiva's Saints - Ben-Herut, Gil; Sundaram, R V S
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The Kannada language boasts an ongoing literary tradition spanning more than a millennium, with a rich array of social positions and roles, religious traditions, and poetic styles that developed over the dramatic history of the region. Yet translations from premodern Kannada to English have been inconsistent, with only a handful of works that have endured. Stories of Shiva's Saints is the first English translation of selected stories from a thirteenth-century text by Hampeya Harihara that sheds light on the rapid spread of Shiva devotion in the region through edified biographies of figures who…mehr

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The Kannada language boasts an ongoing literary tradition spanning more than a millennium, with a rich array of social positions and roles, religious traditions, and poetic styles that developed over the dramatic history of the region. Yet translations from premodern Kannada to English have been inconsistent, with only a handful of works that have endured. Stories of Shiva's Saints is the first English translation of selected stories from a thirteenth-century text by Hampeya Harihara that sheds light on the rapid spread of Shiva devotion in the region through edified biographies of figures who lived a few decades earlier, and the stories' historical significance is matched by their gripping plots and emotional expressivity.
Autorenporträt
Gil Ben-Herut is a professor at the University of South Florida. He holds a PhD in Religious Studies from Emory University. His research interests include premodern religious literature in the Kannada language, South Asian devotional traditions, translation in South Asia, and programming in Digital Humanities. In 2023, Dr. Ben-Herut was awarded the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Award and the Senior Short-Term Research Grant funded by the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for his project "A History of Speaking: Artifact and Authority in Kannada Devotional Songs." R. V. S. Sundaram retired as the Director of the Institute of Kannada Studies at the University of Mysore in 2008. He was also a Visiting Professor of South Indian Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania and other universities. He is a polyglot who has published more than 100 books and monographs in Telugu, Kannada, and English. His books include poetry, fiction, criticism, folklore, and translations. He is the recipient of several state and national awards from A. P. Sahitya Akademi, Union Ministry of Education, Central Institute of Indian Languages, and Gulbarga University.