Bhakti & Sant Parampara
The Brahmin poets who took God out of the temple and into the street.
When the Bhakti movement broke open the Sanskrit-only enclosure of devotional life, it was often Brahmin poets who led the breakage — composing in Awadhi, Brajbhasha, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu. The Ramcharitmanas. The Bhagavata Purana retellings. Bharatas of bhakti.
Legacies in this vertical
Tulsidas
Brahmin poet. Abandoned at birth. Rejected by his wife. He wrote the Ramcharitmanas in Awadhi — and gave a sub-continent of non-Sanskrit speakers their Lord Ram.
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More coming soon
We're authoring one Brahmin legacy at a time, with the rigour of a documentary. If you have a candidate in mind for this vertical, nominate them below.
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