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The Bhakti Movement was a rapid growth of bhakti, first starting in the later part of 1st millennium CE, from Tamil Nadu in southern India with the Shaiva Nayanars [23] and the Vaishnava Alvars. Their ideas and practices inspired bhakti poetry and devotion throughout India over the 12th-18th century CE.
The bhakti marga involving these deities grew with the bhakti movement, starting about the mid-1st millennium CE, from Tamil Nadu in South India. The movement was led by the Saiva Nayanars [10] and the Vaisnava Alvars. Their ideas and practices inspired bhakti poetry and devotion throughout India over the 12th-18th century CE.
Bhakti has been a prevalent practice in various Jaina sects in which learned Tirthankara (Jina) and human gurus are considered superior beings and venerated with offerings, songs and Arti prayers. [117] John Cort suggests that the bhakti movement in later Hinduism and Jainism may share roots in vandal and puja concepts of the Jaina tradition. [117]
1963: Prayer (in Telugu), Lutheran Publishing House, Guntur, 1963. Listed in Joseph and Suneel Bhanu [12] 1976: Telugulo Kraistava Sahityam (in Telugu) Secunderabad, 1976. Listed in Joseph and Suneel Bhanu [12] (reprint in 1989) [12] 1983: Bhakti theology in the Telugu hymnal, [6] 1986: Mahākavi Jāṣuva vyaktitvaṃ, kavitvaṃ (in Telugu) [13]
Mutyala Saralu (Telugu: ముత్యాల సరాలు) is a compilation of Telugu poems written by Gurajada Apparao in 1910. The compilation heralded the beginning of modern poetry in Telugu language. [1] The traditional meter is replaced by a new lyrical and four beat balladic rhythm.
Mulugu Papayaradhya, an 18th-century Telugu poet, is regarded as the first poet to translate the Devi Bhagavata Purana into Telugu. [100] Tirupati Venkata Kavulu also translated this purana into Telugu language in 1896 entitled Devi Bhagavatamu. They have divided the purana into 6 skandas and themselves published it in 1920. [101]
The Narada Bhakti Sutra (IAST: Nārada Bhakti Sūtra) is a well known sutra venerated within the traditions of Hinduism, reportedly spoken by the famous sage, Narada. The text details the process of devotion ( Bhakti ), or Bhakti yoga and is thus of particular importance to many of the Bhakti movements within Hinduism.
Born into a Telugu Brahmin family, Vallabha studied Hindu philosophy from early age, then traveled throughout the Indian subcontinent for over 20 years. He became one of the important leaders of the devotional Bhakti movement. He won many philosophical scholarly debates against the followers of Advaita Vedānta.