I am arrested by her words, her raw, passionate, slow arrows of beauty, her timeless appeal.īorn in the 1100s in the small hamlet of Uduthadi, Karnataka, Mahadevi was initiated into the worship of the Sivalinga at the age of ten and considered herself betrothed to Lord Siva. The vachanas (poems) of Akka Mahadevi, a young saint of the 12th-century reformist Virasaiva movement, are particularly compelling. ILIE AWAKE IN THE THINLY LIT HOURS, of the morning absorbed in the poetry of the 12th-century Virasaivas of Karnataka. The poems of Karnataka’s Virasaiva saints embody the deepest devotion to Siva and point us to the highest reaches of spiritual attainment Arriving at Anubhava Mantapa: Mahadevi visits Allama Prabhu at his courtyard for devotees
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