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Akka Mahadevi (Kannada: ಅಕ್ಕ ಮಹಾದೇವಿ, c. 1130–1160) was one of the early poets of Kannada literature and a prominent person in the Lingayat Shaiva sect in the 12th century. Her 430 Vachana poems (a form of spontaneous mystical poems), and the two short writings called Mantrogopya and the Yogangatrividh are considered her ...
Vachana sahitya is a form of rhythmic writing in Kannada ... Akka Mahadevi, and Allama Prabhu. Vachanas critique rituals and caste discrimination, advocating a form ...
Anubhava Mantapa, or Shivanubhav Mantapa, was a 12th-century academy of mystics, saints, and philosophers of the ‘Lingayath’ faith. It was the fount of all religious and philosophical thought pertaining to Hindu and Shaivite values and ethics. It was presided over by the mystic Allama Prabhu, and numerous Sharanas from all over Karnataka ...
A poem of his mocks at Akka Mahadevi for covering her nudity with tresses, while flaunting it to the world at the same time, in an act of rejection of pleasures. The scholar Basavaraju compiled 1321 extant poems of Allamaprabhu in his work Allamana Vachana Chandrike (1960). These poems are known to cover an entire range, from devotion to final ...
Akka Mahadevi, noted female Kannada poet, 12th century Prominent among the more than thirty women poets was Akka Mahadevi. Born to a merchant family in the town Udatadi (or Udugani) in the Shivamogga district, and possibly married against her wishes to a feudal chief called Kausika, she renounced worldly pleasures, opting for a life of devotion ...
A vachana (poem) by Akka Mahadevi Several works are attributed to the founder of Lingayatism movement, Basava, and these texts are revered in the Lingayat community. In particular, these include various Vachana (literally, "what is said") [42] such as the Shat-sthala-vachana , Kala-jnana-vachana , Mantra-gopya , Ghatachakra-vachana and Raja ...
Akka Mahadevi, Allama Prabhu, and a host of Basavanna's followers, including Chenna Basava, Prabhudeva, Siddharama, and Kondaguli Kesiraja wrote hundreds of poems called Vachanas in praise of Lord Shiva. The esteemed scholars in the Hoysala court, Harihara and Raghavanka, were Virashaivas.
Following initiation in 1965 by Lingananda Swami, Maate Mahadevi began writing vachanas, a form of didactic poetry. In 1966 she received her Jangama initiation as an ascetic in the Lingayat order of wandering mendicants. In 1970 she was installed as a jagadguru in the Lingayat community, the first time a woman had been placed in that position.