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Akka Mahadevi

A 12th-century Kannada woman poet-saint of the Sharana movement whose vachanas address Shiva as Chennamallikarjuna, her only lord and lover.

devotion renunciation

Sources: Vachana sahitya — Wikipedia · see Akka Mahadevi's web

Relations 1

Akka Mahadevi devotee of

Shiva (God) Shaiva · The Sharanas' Shiva of the meeting rivers
As Chennamallikarjuna.

Stories 1

The Sharanas' Shiva of the meeting rivers
How a tradition frames it · as woman poet-saint of the movement · 2 tellings

Cited

Vachana sahitya — Wikipedia Encyclopedia