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The Sharanas' Shiva of the meeting rivers

Basavanna and the Kannada vachana poets addressed Shiva as their own personal lord, rejecting temple, caste and ritual, with the body itself as the shrine.

Basavanna, Akka Mahadevi, Allama Prabhu, Shiva

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