1550For Love of the Dark One: Songs of MirabaiMirabai, translated by Andrew Schelling
PhilosophyBook · 1550
For Love of the Dark One: Songs of Mirabai
Mirabai, translated by Andrew Schelling
Mirabai's bhajans to Krishna, refusing widowhood, family and rank. Still sung across north India four centuries later.
Why you should read this
A translation of devotional poems attributed to the bhakti poet-saint Mirabai, who addressed her verses to Krishna as the 'Dark One' of the title. Suited to readers interested in bhakti devotional poetry as a genre rather than a scholarly apparatus around her historical biography.
- Field
- Philosophy
- Form
- Fiction
- Published
- 1550
- Themes
- Eastern PhilosophyPhilosophy
