By Elaine Craddock
The Hindu poet-saint Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār describes herself as a demon, accompanying the god Śiva as he dances within the cremation grounds. She is thought to be the 1st to write down devotional poetry to Śiva within the Tamil language and is taken into account the 1st of the sixty-three Tamil poet-saints. Written within the 6th or 7th century, her attractive poetry offers the trail of affection and repair that brings liberation. In Śiva’s Demon Devotee, Elaine Craddock presents a old, literary, and ethnographic exploration of Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār and her paintings. An annotated translation of the poet-saint’s 143 verses is incorporated in addition to an creation to the Tamil literary culture. Craddock’s research of this poetry in its historic context and of the narrative culture that built round the lifetime of Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār centuries later unearths cultural tensions touching on women’s roles and the devotional path.
“The book’s maximum power is its systematic and entire method of Ammaiyār … What Craddock has contributed to the research of South Asian non secular traditions is an in depth, informative, well-written e-book that I expect can be well-known because the average paintings on Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār.” — Tracy Pintchman, Religion
Elaine Craddock is Professor of faith at Southwestern University.
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