The Bijak of Kabir,9780195148763

The Bijak of Kabir

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ISBN13: 9780195148763
ISBN10: 0195148762
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-04-18
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

Kabir was an extraordinary oral poet whose works have been sung and recited by millions throughout North India for half a millennium. He may have been illiterate and he preached an abrasive, sometimes shocking, always uncompromising message that exhorted his audience to shed their delusions, pretentions, and empty orthodoxies in favor 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.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Transliteration and Abbreviations xv
Introduction
Kabir's Life and Work
3(4)
Rough Rhetoric
7(18)
The Untellable Story
25(10)
``Numskull, You've Missed the Point!''
35(6)
Translations
Sabda
41(38)
Ramaini
79(11)
Sakhi
90(45)
APPENDICES
A. Upside-down Language
135(27)
1. The Tradition
135(10)
2. The Cow is Sucking at the Calf's Teat: Interpreting Kabir's Upside-down Songs
145(17)
B. A Note on Meter and Rhyme
162(3)
C. Versions and Editions of the Bijak and Errors in the Hindi Edition
165(4)
Notes 169(28)
Glossary 197(2)
Select Bibliography 199

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