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Yoga / Hindu : Shaivite (Shiva)
12th Century

About Allama Prabhu

Timeline (12th Century)

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English version by
A. K. Ramanujan

Original Language
Kannada
When the toad

Themes
  Sky
  Snake
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

Speaking of Siva, by A K Ramanujan

When the toad
swallowed the sky,
look, Rahu
the serpent mounted
and wonder of wonders!
the blind man
caught the snake.

Thus, O Lord,
I learned
without telling the world.

 

 

-- from Speaking of Siva, by A K Ramanujan

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