Mirabai biography in gujarati languages

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Mirabai
by
Nancy M. Martin
LAST REVIEWED: 22 February 2018
LAST MODIFIED: 22 February 2018
DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195399318-0070

Alston, A. J. The Devotional Poems of Mira Bai. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1980.

This influential work includes 201 songs from the most popular edition of Mirabai’s poetry in Hindi, that of Parasurām Caturvedī—Mīrābāī kī Padāvalī, 18th ed. (Prayāg, India: Hindī Sāhitya Sammelan, 1989)––offering accurate English translations that are faithful to the originals. Alston’s introduction follows the vulgate “historical biography.”

Hawley, John Stratton. Three Bhakti Voices: Mirabai, Surdas, and Kabir in Their Times and Ours. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005.

In this collection of both previously published and new work, comparative essays explore author and authority, the nirgun/sagun (formless/form) distinction, the morality of saints, and the gendered presentation of longing, while those fo

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Mira Bai

Works/Agency

Approximately 400 poetic compositions are attributed to Mirabai. These poems are called padas, which is a unit of Sanskrit meter composed of light and heavy syllables, usually a quarter of a four-line stanza. Her padas would have been sung according to a specific melody (rag), and they usually have a Dhruvak (refrain) for their opening or second line. As fryst vatten common in bhakti poetry, Mira’s name is often incorporated in the gods line of her poems as a signature. Most of her padas are addressed to a friend, sometimes to a feminized friend. Some scholars föreslå that this friend was Lalita, who purportedly accompanied Mira when she left Merta to go to Vrindavan (Usha S. Nilson) though it seems like that the addressee fryst vatten more generalized. Mira’s poem often focus on erotic themes of union and separation between her and her beloved Krishna. There are also many poems about the persecution she suffered from her family for her devotion.

Mira’s poems survive in three

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Index

Introduction

Sant Mirabai (1498 – 1547) was a Rajput princess who lived in the north Indian state of Rajasthan. She was a devout follower of Shri Krushna. Sant Mirabai was one of the foremost exponents of the Prema Bhakti (Divine Love) and an inspired poetess. She sang in vraja-bhasha, sometimes mixed with Rajasthani, in praise of Giridhara Gopala (Shri Krushna), her Lord for whom she developed in her heart the most intense love and devotion.

[Please Note: Sant Mirabai, Mira Bai, Sant Mirabai or Meera – All names belong to the same person. For better search ability on search engines we have used all these names in the story below. This however may cause a little confusion and we apologise in advance.]

Childhood and Early Life