Bhakti Beyond the Forest

Contents Preface 9 Notes on the Transliteration and the Dates 17 CONSTRUCTING BHAKTI COMMUNITIES 1 The Four Sampradayas-and Other Foursomes 21 2 Thematic Groupings of Bhakti Poetry: The Dadupanth and Sarvarigi Literature 51 3 Nabhadas ' Bhaktamal and Manuscript Culture 73 4 Sainthood Revisited: Two Printed Versions of the Lives of the Eighty-four Vaishnavas by Gokulnath 91 5 On and Around the Story of Candrahasa: The Transmission of a Tale and Bhakti 105 BHAKTI AND SOCIETY 6 Shiva and Parvati Assist Young Couples in their Marriage as Referred to in Hindi Devotional Literature and Folk Songs 127 7 Devotion Rewarded: The Attitude towards Wealth in the Religious Literature of Medieval Gujarat - Francoise Mallison 137 IDEOLOGY 8 Vaishnava Sampradayas on the Importance of Ritual: A Comparison of the Two Contemporaneous Approaches by Vitthalanatha and Jiva Gosvami 155 9 Jayatram's Jogpradipaka: Between Hatha-yoga and Bhakti in the Eighteenth Century 177 10 From Sabda-brahman to Sabad: The Way from a Transpersonal Concept to Personal Experience 191 11 From Ontology to Aesthetics: A Bengal Vaishnava Interpretation of the Upanishadic Passage So 'ham 205 FORMS 12 Loving God through Sanskrit Grammar: Jiva Gosvami's Use of Krishna's Names in Harinamamrta- vyakarana 223 13 God Outside and God Inside: North Indian Digambar Jain Performance of Bhakti 225 14 Kabir's Prosody and a Metrical Reconstruction of his Pads 287 15 The Language of Devotion: Transcending the Diversity of Linguistic Structures 305 16 Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend': The Female Body and Ornaments in Mirabai’s Padavali 323 17 Matra in Bhakti Poetry and Perso-Arabic Metres 357 18 Srnkhla: A System of Musico-Religious Performance of the Samaj-gayan in Braj 367 Appendix Corrections in The Millennium Kabir Vani Winand Collewaert 383 Index of Names and Works 397