Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 208 pages | ISBN 9780140442700 | 30 Aug 1973 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP years
This volume contains a collection of vacanas (free-verse lyrics) centering on the Hindu god Shiva, written by four saints of the great bhakti protest movement of the tenth century a.d.: Basvanna, Devara Dasimayya, Mahaadeviyakka, and Allama Prabhu.
Speaking of Siva
Translator's Note
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Further Readings in English
The Poems:
Basavanna
Devara Dasimayya
Mahadeviyakka
Allama Prabbu
Appendix I. The Six-Phase System
Appendix II. On Lingayat Culture
by William McCormack
Notes to the Poems
