Alvars of South India: A psychiatric scanner

Vaishnavism, the other important Hindu tradition besides Saivism, gained importance by the Bhakti movement sprouting from the Tamil land in the 7(th)–9(th) centuries Common Era and spreading all over the subcontinent, and as preached by the Alvars, which is discussed along with the evolution of the...

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Autores principales: Somasundaram, Ottilingam, Murthy, Tejus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Literary Psychiatry
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5659091/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29085100
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_383_16
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description Vaishnavism, the other important Hindu tradition besides Saivism, gained importance by the Bhakti movement sprouting from the Tamil land in the 7(th)–9(th) centuries Common Era and spreading all over the subcontinent, and as preached by the Alvars, which is discussed along with the evolution of the Godhead of Lord Vishnu is briefly mentioned. The maternal care of the divine child Sri Krishna by Yashodha as described by the Alvar, Perialvar, is summarized. The mysticism of Nammalvar and the religious experiences of other two Alvars, Kulasekarar and Andal, are sketched in this study.
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spelling pubmed-56590912017-10-30 Alvars of South India: A psychiatric scanner Somasundaram, Ottilingam Murthy, Tejus Indian J Psychiatry Literary Psychiatry Vaishnavism, the other important Hindu tradition besides Saivism, gained importance by the Bhakti movement sprouting from the Tamil land in the 7(th)–9(th) centuries Common Era and spreading all over the subcontinent, and as preached by the Alvars, which is discussed along with the evolution of the Godhead of Lord Vishnu is briefly mentioned. The maternal care of the divine child Sri Krishna by Yashodha as described by the Alvar, Perialvar, is summarized. The mysticism of Nammalvar and the religious experiences of other two Alvars, Kulasekarar and Andal, are sketched in this study. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5659091/ /pubmed/29085100 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_383_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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