Nirgun Bhakti Sagar: Devotional Hindi Literature

This book is a tribute to India's literary and religious heritage, featuring manuscripts on Bhakti literature from scores of libraries, temples, and private collections. It includes the Rajasthani Pancavani collection of five great Bhaktas, the Bijak of Kabir, Hindi songs of Gorakhnath and Sundardas, and a selection of Siddha literature. Permission has been granted to reproduce edited texts.

Format: Hardback
Length: 1660 pages
Publication date: 30 October 2023
Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors

This book is a tribute to India's literary and religious heritage. For the last 25 years, Dr. Winand M. Callewaert visited scores of libraries, temples, and private collections to study and catalogue manuscripts on Bhakti literature. As the years passed by, his admiration increased for the great medieval Bhaktas who meditated and sang. The result of their devotion is preserved in thousands of manuscripts. In order to make that treasure easily accessible to scholars and devotees, these two volumes were produced with the help of computer facilities for printing and sorting words in alphabetical order. The basis for selection is the famous Rajasthani Pancavani collection of the works of five great Bhaktas: Dadu, Kabir, Namdev, Raidas, and Hardas. In order to make a comparison possible, the authors have also included the Bijak of Kabir, the 'Hindi songs of Gorakhnath and Sundardas, and a selection of Siddha literature. Permission given to reproduce a few edited texts now not easily available is gratefully acknowledged.

Weight: 1988g
Dimension: 195 x 254 x 100 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9788185425658