| Songs of Kabir Contributor(s): Tagore, Rabindranath (Author), Kabir (Author) |
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ISBN: 1604594594 ISBN-13: 9781604594591 Publisher: A & D Publishing OUR PRICE: $10.44 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2008 Annotation: The poet Kabr is one of the most interesting personalities in the history of Indian mysticism. A great religious reformer, the founder of a sect to which nearly a million northern Hindus still belong, it is yet supremely as a mystical poet that Kabr lives for us. A beautiful legend tells us that after his death his Mohammedan and Hindu disciples disputed the possession of his body; which the Mohammedans wished to bury, the Hindus to burn. As they argued together, Kabr appeared before them, and told them to lift the shroud and look at that which lay beneath. They did so, and found in the place of the corpse a heap of flowers; half of which were buried by the Mohammedans at Maghar, and half carried by the Hindus to the holy city of Benares to be burned. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | World - General - Philosophy | Hindu - Poetry | Middle Eastern |
| Dewey: 891.431 |
| Physical Information: 0.13" H x 6" W x 9" (0.21 lbs) 56 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Hindu - Religious Orientation - Islamic - Cultural Region - Middle East |
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| Publisher Description: The poet Kab r is one of the most interesting personalities in the history of Indian mysticism. A great religious reformer, the founder of a sect to which nearly a million northern Hindus still belong, it is yet supremely as a mystical poet that Kab r lives for us. A beautiful legend tells us that after his death his Mohammedan and Hindu disciples disputed the possession of his body; which the Mohammedans wished to bury, the Hindus to burn. As they argued together, Kab r appeared before them, and told them to lift the shroud and look at that which lay beneath. They did so, and found in the place of the corpse a heap of flowers; half of which were buried by the Mohammedans at Maghar, and half carried by the Hindus to the holy city of Benares to be burned. |