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Website. www.kswu.ac.in. Karnataka State Akkamahadevi Women's University (KSAWU, Vijayapura) also known as Karnataka State Women's University was established in August 2003 and is the first university exclusively for women in the state of Karnataka. It is in the city of Vijayapur (formerly known as Bijapur). Prof.
a Became a central university in 2006. The English and Foreign Languages University known as EFLU is a central university for English and foreign languages located in Hyderabad, India. [5] It is the only such university dedicated to languages in South Asia. [6][7] EFL University Campus. The university offers the study of English and foreign ...
Akka Mahadevi (Kannada: ಅಕ್ಕ ಮಹಾದೇವಿ, c. 1130–1160) was an early poet of Kannada literature [1] and a prominent member of the Lingayat Shaiva sect in the 12th century. [2] Her 430 vachana s (a form of spontaneous mystical poems), and the two short writings called Mantrogopya and the Yogangatrividh are considered her ...
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.
The Bhagavad Gita: A Text and Commentary for Students. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 978-1-84519-346-1. Hawley, John (2015). A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-18746-7. Iwao, Shima (June–September 1988).
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 ...
Akka Mahadevi, a Vachana poet who renounced the temporal world in favour of one of devotion became an example for woman of the day. [2] The practice of sati, though voluntary was prevalent and prostitution was socially acceptable. [3] Temple dancers were common in temples and some were well educated and accomplished in arts.
Abhinavagupta; Adi Shankara; Akka Mahadevi; Allama Prabhu; Alvars; Basava; Chaitanya; Ramdas Kathiababa; Chakradhara; Chāngadeva; Dadu Dayal; Eknath; Gangesha Upadhyaya