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What are the manifestations of Tamil devotional cults? How do you account for their growth between C. 750 and C. 1200 CE?
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- Cultural Traditions in India, 750-1200
Tamil bhakti — devotion understood as intimate, emotional participation in a personal deity rather than mediated Vedic ritual — took visible shape between roughly the seventh and twelfth centuries in a body of vernacular hymnal poetry, an institutionalized sainthood, and temple-centred congregational life. Its manifestations were as much social and institutional as literary, and its…
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- Manifestations: Saints, Hymns, and Sacred Geography
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