The Bijak of Kabir
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 9 May 2002
- ISBN 9780195148763
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 236x142x16 mm
- Weight 313 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Kabir was an extraordinary oral poet whose works have been sung and recited by millions throughout North India for half a millenium. He may have been illiterate--'I do not touch ink or paper, this hand has never grasped a pen'--and he preached an abrasive, sometimes shocking, always uncompromising message that exhorted his audience to shed their delusions, pretensions, and empty orthodoxies in favour of an intense, direct, and personal confrontation with the truth. Thousands of poems are popularly attributed to Kabir, but only a few written collections have survived over the centuries. The Bijak is one of the most important, and is the sacred book of those who follow Kabir.
MoreLong description:
Kabir was an extraordinary oral poet whose works have been sung and recited by millions throughout North India for half a millenium. He may have been illiterate--'I do not touch ink or paper, this hand has never grasped a pen'--and he preached an abrasive, sometimes shocking, always uncompromising message that exhorted his audience to shed their delusions, pretensions, and empty orthodoxies in favour of an intense, direct, and personal confrontation with the truth. Thousands of poems are popularly attributed to Kabir, but only a few written collections have survived over the centuries. The Bijak is one of the most important, and is the sacred book of those who follow Kabir.
Hess has liberated this fresh and stunning voice from centuries of pious encrustation on the Indian side, and decades of unwitting conventionality on our own
Table of Contents:
Preface
Transliteration and Abbreviations
INTRODUCTION
Kabir's Life and work
Rough Rhetoric
The Untellable Story
'Numskull, You've Missed the Point!'
TRANSLATIONS
Sabda
Ramaini
Sakhi
APPENDICES
Upside-down Language
1. The Tradition
2. The Cow is Sucking at the Calf's Teat: Interpreting
Kabir's Upside-down Song
A Note on Meter and Rhyme
Versions and Editions of the Bijak and Errors in the Hindi Edition
