Nivruttinath biography of george michael
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"The Ideal of Casteless Language in Pramoedya's Arok Dedes," in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Winter 2012 (32:3).
Access Provided by UMass Amherst Libraries at 02/14/13 1:52PM GMT The Ideal of Casteless Language in Pramoedya’s Arok Dedes Annette Damayanti Lienau s the novelistic adaptation of an Indic-Javanese legend, Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Arok Dedes is a work of historical fiction poised at the vortex of two distinct literary movements, both encompassing the peripheries of the Indian Ocean though historically emerging centuries apart. The first of these literary movements involves the historical circulation and vernacularization of a Sanskrit epic tradition, in a transregional literary order that Sheldon Pollock has termed a “Sanskrit cosmopolis.”1 The second of these literary movements emerged nearly a thousand years after the decline of Sanskrit in Southeast Asia, with the midtwentieth- century emergence of anticolonial nationalisms in Asia and Africa. Pramoedya’s historical novel Arok Dedes in this respect uniquely assumes the legacy of a leftist “novelists’ international” (to use Michael Denning’s term),2 emulating the patterns of socialist realism as a literary practice beyond the Soviet Union while speaking to the histo
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List of Deshastha Brahmins
Deshastha Brahmins form a major sub-caste of Brahmins in states of Maharashtra and North Karnataka in India. They are also found in sizeable number in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu. The following is the list of notables from the community.
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Religious figures
[edit]- Nivruttinath (1273–1297) - older brother of Dynaneshwar; Varkari saint and philosopher[1]
- Dnyaneshwar (1275–1296) - 13th-century MarathiVarkarisaint, poet, philosopher and yogi of the NathVaishnava tradition[1]
- Sopan (1277-1296) - saint of the Varkari sect; younger brother of saint Dnyaneshwar[1]
- Muktabai (1279-1297) - younger sister of Saint Dynaneshwar; Varkari saint and philosopher[1]
- Chakradhar Swami - 13th century Vaishnava saint; founder of the Mahanubhava sect.[2]
- Padmanabha Tirtha (Shobhana Bhatta) (samadhi 1324 CE), a HinduDvaita philosopher, dialectician, the direct disciple of Madhvacharya and the acharya who is known for spreading Tattvavada outside the Tulunadu region.
- Jayatirtha (1345 – 1388) - a HinduDvaita philosoph
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