The Vārkarīs are a sampradāy (long0standing religious tradition) based in western India, where Marathi is the dominant language, particularly in the state of Maharashtra. The Vārkarīs are distinguished by a devotional ( bhakti ) focus on the deity Viṭṭhal, two major annual pilgrimages to Viṭṭhal’s chief temple in the town of Pandharpur, and a textual corpus consisting of Marathi compositions by sant-kavis o…
Vārkarī Sampradāy(6,492 words)
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Jon Keune and Christian Lee Novetzke, “Vārkarī Sampradāy”, in: Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Edited by: Knut A. Jacobsen, Helene Basu, Angelika Malinar, Vasudha Narayanan. Consulted online on 25 April 2018 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2212-5019_beh_COM_9000000070>
First published online: 2012
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