Mahadevi

Hindu poet-saint
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Also known as: Mahadeviyakka
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Also known as:
Mahadeviyakka
Flourished:
12th century ce
Flourished:
1101 - 1200

Mahadevi (flourished 12th century ce) was a Hindu poet-saint of the Karnataka region of India. Married to a local king against her will, Mahadevi subsequently left her husband and renounced the world. Legend has it that she wandered naked, singing songs of passionate love for her “true husband,” the god Shiva. Some of her poems concern the irreconcilable conflict between secular and religious love and devotion: “Take these husbands who die, decay, and feed them to your kitchen fires!” Her devotional songs revolve around a theme typical of the Indian devotional tradition—the interplay between, on the one hand, love in ...(100 of 145 words)