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The Heritage of India Series Hymns of The Tamil Saivite Saints

by F. Kingsbury, G. E. Phillips
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9788121246064
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
  • Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House
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  • Pages: 148
  • Original Price: INR 300.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 302 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): N/A

A Collection of hymns from the Tamil hymn compendiums called Devaram and Tiruvachagam. The first of these is held to be canonical by the Tamil Saivites. This book is a collection of 136 stanzas and offers a short note on the poets before the start of their hymns. This book is a reprint of the 1921 edition. The authors would have wished, had it been possible, to alter the note on stanza 17 (p. 27), which is there treated as a case of intercession for others. Fuller comparison of this hymn with other similar ones in Tamil religious poetry convinces them that the ‘she’ in the hymn is none other than the devotee, who compares himself to a love-sick woman, as in stanza 19. They think that if only a person had a Hindu-hymn book, he thinks he could learn from it the spirit of Hinduism as well as a non-Christian could learn Christianity from Christian hymns. At such a time these hymns are worth looking into, for they are sung in temples and homes throughout the Tamil country, and Tamil is mother-tongue of more than eighteen millions of people. The book contains few good illustrations also.

Francis Kingsbury was the son of C.W. Damodaram Pillai, the celebrated pioneer-editor of Tamil works. Pillai was a Christian by birth and he became a Saivite early in his life. His children were brought up in the strict Saivite tradition. His last will and testament contained a clause whereby any heir of his embracing Christianity would forfeit his share in Pillai’s property. These precautions notwithstanding, his son because a Christian.Kingsbury’s love of the Tevaaram and the Tiruvaachakam knew no bounds. He took special efforts to bring out an anthology of Saivite hymns and their translation. He made a selection of 138 verses and rendered them into English. He entrusted the work of giving metrical form to his colleague G.E. Phillips an Englishman. These two gentlemen were attached to the United Theological college, Bangalore. Their work ‘Hymns of the Tamil Saivite Saints’ with Tamil text and translation into English, appeared in 1921.

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