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. Puranic retellings. Bharats of bhakti.
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The Saints Who Carried Devotion to the People.
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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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