Mirabai (1498–1557)
Author of For Love of the Dark One: Songs of Mirabai
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
Sixteenth-century woman saint of North India who's name is translated as Meera/Meerabai or Mirabai. Not the twentieth-century teacher known as 'Mother Meera.'
Works by Mirabai
The devotional poems of Mīrābāī 3 copies
Songs of Mirabai 2 copies
Ak de Bipé [Explicit] 1 copy
Mirabai 1 copy
Mirabai Versions 1 copy
Mīrām̐bāī kī padāvalī 1 copy
ミラバイ訳詩集―クリシュナ讃美歌集 1 copy
Associated Works
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributor — 497 copies, 2 reviews
Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women (1994) — Contributor — 385 copies, 5 reviews
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Contributor — 229 copies, 1 review
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Common Knowledge
- Other names
- Mirabai
Mīrābāī
Meerabai
Meera - Birthdate
- 1498
- Date of death
- 1557
- Gender
- female
- Occupations
- saint
wandering mendicant
poet - Birthplace
- Rajasthan, India
- Places of residence
- Rajasthan, India
Medta, India
Mewar, India - Map Location
- India
- Disambiguation notice
- Sixteenth-century woman saint of North India who's name is translated as Meera/Meerabai or Mirabai. Not the twentieth-century teacher known as 'Mother Meera.'
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Reviews
Sometime in the sixteenth century a high born Hindu lady fell in love with a god, Krishna, dropped everything, family, friends, widow's weeds, and went through the land singing about it. The ecstasy is similar to the Sufi effusions, but--at least according to this translation--rather more starkly sexual. This truly is "body & soul" devotion. The singing was apparently literal, and although I suppose Mirabai's own melodies are lost or transformed after all this time, her texts are still sung show more and recorded. show less
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