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Lorenzen, David N. - KABIR LEGENDS AND ANANTA-DAS’S KABIR PARACHAI.

 1561270287,
Albany, State University of New York Press. 1991. 1st edition 268 pp. Pb. With a translation of the Kabir Parachai prepared in collaboration with Jagdish Kumar and Uma Thukral and with an edition of the Niranjani Panthi recension of this work. This book represents the first systematic collection and analysis of the principal legends about Kabir Das, a fifteenth-century poet-saint. It focuses on the ways in which the legends embody and reflect the often changing social and religious needs of those who created and listened to them. Particular attention is paid to the earliest known collection of legends, Ananta-das's Kabir Parachai. This book makes available for the first time an English translation of this text, with detailed notes on its variant readings, as well as a corrected Hindi edition based on a comparison of over a dozen manuscripts. very good condition
EUR 29.50 [Appr.: US$ 34.66 | £UK 25.75 | JP¥ 5092] Book number 71715

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