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Mirabai (1498–1557)

Author of For Love of the Dark One: Songs of Mirabai

21+ Works 121 Members 2 Reviews 1 Favorited

About the Author

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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

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
The Penguin Book of Women Poets (1978) — Contributor — 317 copies
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Contributor — 229 copies, 1 review
Indian Love Poetry (2006) — Contributor — 14 copies

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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

2 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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Rating
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ISBNs
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Languages
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