Akka Mahadevi: Riding the blue sapphire mountains

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Riding the blue sapphire mountains

Akka Mahadevi, Akka Mahadevi poetry, Yoga / Hindu, Yoga / Hindu poetry, Shaivite (Shiva) poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry

by Akka Mahadevi
(12th Century) Timeline

English version by
A. K. Ramanujan

Original Language
Kannada

Yoga / Hindu : Shaivite (Shiva)

12th Century

Riding the blue sapphire mountains
wearing moonstone for slippers
blowing long horns
O Shiva
when shall I
crush you on my pitcher breasts?

O lord white as jasmine
when do I join you
stripped of body's shame
and heart's modesty?

-- from Speaking of Siva, by A K Ramanujan

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Themes

Mountain

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