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Akka Mahadevi (Kannada: ಅಕ್ಕ ಮಹಾದೇವಿ, c. 1130–1160) was an early poet of Kannada literature and a prominent member of the Lingayat Shaiva sect in the 12th century. Her 430 vachana s (a form of spontaneous mystical poems), and the two short writings called Mantrogopya and the Yogangatrividh are considered her known ...
ಅಕ್ಕಮಹಾದೇವಿ - ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ. ಅಕ್ಕಾ ಮಹಾದೇವಿಯ ಜನ್ಮಸ್ಥಳ ಉಡುತಡಿ ಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ ದೇವಾಲಯದಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಪವಿತ್ರವಾದ ಮೂರ್ತಿ. ಅಕ್ಕಾ ಪ್ರತಿಮೆಯನ್ನು ಆಕೆಯ ಜನ್ಮಸ್ಥಳವಾದ ಉಡುತಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ಥಾಪಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಅಕ್ಕಮಹಾದೇವಿ [೧] ವಚನ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯದ ಪ್ರಮುಖರಲ್ಲೊಬ್ಬರು. ಅಕ್ಕಮಹಾದೇವಿ ಕನ್ನಡದ ಪ್ರಥಮ ಮಹಿಳಾ ಕವಿಯತ್ರಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
Akka Mahadevi was a twelfth century (c. 1130-1160) Kannada poet, saint and mystic of the Virashaiva Bhakti Movement. The Virashaivites were social and spiritual revolutionaries in Karnataka during the twelfth century.
Akka Mahadevi. Place: Udutadi in Shivamogga District , Karnataka. Period: 12th Century. At 16, Mahadevi was the epitome of beauty. While other girls of her age dreamt of prospective bridegrooms, she decided to wed Shiva, more precisely, Chenna Mallikarjuna (the beautiful Lord, pure as Jasmine).
Oct 25, 2018 · They criticized personal and social hypocrisy, corrected even their own husbands and in a sharane like Akka Mahadevi, we come across an intellectual and spiritual peak of the movement… These vachanas are a proof of the ability of the women writers to think and to conceptualize.
Akka Mahadevi is an early poet of Kannada literature in the 12th century. She wrote 430 extant Vachana poems. Explore her poetry here with analysis.
Akka Mahadevi (???? ?????) or Mahadevi or Mahadeviyakkha, a brilliant medieval Kannada poet, rebel and mystic, was a prominent figure of the Veerashaiva Bhakti movement of the 12th century Karnataka.
