D R Nagaraj’s Allama Prabhu and the shaiva imagination: translated from Kannada by N S Gundur

A wonderful read especially for somebody like me who had only heard the vachanas sung by Mallikarjun Mansur, Basavaraj Rajguru and Venkatesh Kumar but never read any of them or the other medieval Kannada literary works. I also did not realise that there are echoes of and conversations with Abhinavagupta and Bhratrihari in the [ ]