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Shivayan

Also called: Shibayan, Shivayana

Rameswar Bhattacharya's mid-18th-century Bengali poem on Shiva as a poor rural householder, with the stock episode of Shiva taking up farming; scholars call its peasant Shiva the model that prevailed in Bengal.

Sources: Rural livelihood of eighteenth-century Bengal in perspectives of Shivayana by Rameswara Bhattacharya; Shibayan (Famine and Dearth project) · see Shivayan's web

Relations 1

Shivayan features

Shiva (God) Folk · Shiva takes up the plough
As a poor Bengali farmer.

Stories 1

Shiva takes up the plough
Folk tale · 2 tellings

Cited

Rural livelihood of eighteenth-century Bengal in perspectives of Shivayana by Rameswara Bhattacharya Scholarly
Shibayan (Famine and Dearth project) Scholarly