Siva's Saints —— The Origins of Devotion in Kannada according to Harihara's Ragalegalu

----- 西瓦的圣徒：根据哈里哈拉的奉献与卡纳达的热爱起源

ISBN: 9780190878849 出版年：2018 页码：297 Ben-Herut, Gil Oxford University Press

In Siva's Saints, Gil Ben-Herut challenges common notions about the Virasaiva tradition in its nascent phases. By closely reading the saints' stories in this text, Siva's Saints takes a more nuanced historical view than commonly-held notions about the egalitarian and iconoclastic nature of the early tradition, arguing instead that early bhakti (devotionalism) in the Kannada-speaking region was less-radical and more accommodating toward traditional religious, social, and political institutions than thought of today.