[New Publication] From marginal to canonical: The afterlife of a late medieval Telugu hagiography in a Kannada translation
By Gil Ben-Herut ABSTRACT This article considers the literary fate of the Basava Purāṇa in its original thirteenth-century Telugu version and fourteenth-century translation to Kannada while highlighting the stark difference in each work’s reception: while the former text remained at the margins of what is conventionally regarded as “mainstream” Telugu literature, the latter became a part of a prevalent literary idiom and […]
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