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	Akka Mahadevi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Akka Mahadevi (ಅಕ್ಕ ಮಹಾದೇವಿ) Born to Nirmala and Sumati in Udatadi (or Udugani) near the ancient city of Banavasi (in Shikaripura taluk Shimoga district) in a Shiva temple was a prominent figure of the Veerashaiva Bhakti movement in 12th century Karnataka.
		Yet the term 'Akka' (elder Sister) which is an honorific given to her by great Veerashaiva saints like Basavanna, Cenna Basavanna, Kinnari Bommayya, Siddharama, Allamaprabhu and Dasimayya speaks volumes of her contribution to Kannada literature and the history of Karnataka.
		Akka was a revelation here in that she not only rose for emancipation but also has sung vachanas which are so simple but of highest order.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Akka_Mahadevi (757 words)

	Screen the business of entertainment-Regional-Bengali-Preview
		This is just one of the poems Mahadevi Akka, the 12th Century Kannada mystic poet composed, eight hundred years before American women began burning their bras in public as an expression of rebellion against male-defined norms of female beauty.
		Mahadevi Akka informs Dutta "challenged social norms and discarded traditional notions of femininity in ways explosive enough to shock both men and women of her time.
		For Akka, the shedding of clothes and wandering around naked in search of Lord Shiva (Chennamallikarjuna in Kannada) was a mark of protest against the sexual claims made on her body by the local king who might or might not have been her husband.
	www.screenindia.com /20010427/bengali.html (1261 words)

	Akkamahadevi@shivayoga.net
		Akka Mahadevi was born about 1150 A.D. at Udutadi, a place of historical importance, in Shivamogga District of Karnataka State.
		Akka Mahadevi, even when a young child, displayed her religious proclivities which she probably inherited from her parents.
		Akka Mahadevi started from Udutadi, arrived at Kalyana and proceeded to Shrishaila, the place of her last destination where she saw God Mallikarjuna face to face and was absorbed by him in the plaintain grove.
	www.shivayoga.net /literature/sharanas/akkamahadevi.html (1144 words)

	Akka Mahadevi : Poems and Biography
		Mahadevi or Akka Mahadevi, sometimes called simply Akka, was born in Udutadi in the Karnataka region of India.
		At age 10, she was initiated as a devotee of Shiva, the pale-skinned god of destruction and rebirth, lord of yogis and ascetics.
		Much of Akka's poetry explores the themes of rejecting mortal love in favor of the everlasting, "illicit" love of God, and this seems to be the path she chose as well.
	www.poetry-chaikhana.com /M/MahadeviAkka (374 words)

	Scribbles On Akka
		Mahadevi Akka, the poet, still influences the contemporary poets and painters.
		Mahadevi Akka, the deity, graces the packets of pickles and papads - prepared by ladies' co-operatives.
		As she makes a final journey on behalf of Akka on screen, the film becomes a conveyor belt, a circular and constant move from everyday to asceticism, from popular culture to divinity, a modern bhakti saga.
	www.upperstall.com /akka.html (903 words)

	The Music Magazine -- India's first and finest music e-zine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Akka Mahadevi, who lived in the 12th century, struggled to peel away this veneer, both in herself and in people around her.
		Akka asserted her feminine individuality, but for her male and female were again veneers, for in a vachana she speaks of the spirit within that is neither male nor female.
		Akka was a more daring poet than, say, a Mira, and her explicit images glow with a luminosity that 900 years haven't been able to dim.
	www.themusicmagazine.com /akkafilm.html (870 words)

	The Hindu : Spiritual love of Akka Mahadevi highlighted
		Akka Mahadevi as a saint singer of the Veera Saiva cult was described as one of the earliest and brightest stars among the saint singers, who composed vachanas or compositions addressing the Supreme in nayikaa-nayaka bhava.
		Various vachanas centering round the deep devotion of Akka Mahadevi towards her Ishta Devata, Channa Mallikaarjuna Swami (``Kalavalada'', ``Holeyuva'', ``Kaamisi kalipisi,'' ``Chilipili'') and her intense love for the Lord in its different stages were illustrated, bringing out the composer's outburst of spiritual love.
		While some of the earlier vachanas contained eight lines (shatpadi), Akka Mahadevi has composed vachanas in Tripadi (three lines).R. Vedavalli referred to the vachanas of Basavanna, as having ideas of general outlook towards life, and added that Akka Mahadevi could be described as the Andal of Karnataka.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/2001/01/12/stories/0912070s.htm (1164 words)

	Who is Akka - Dr. R.G. Mathapati
		It is believed that she was born in Ballegavi of Banavasi which was a center of Shaiva culture during 12th century (it covers Shimoga district of modern Karnataka), lived amidst the Sharanas of Kalayana (Bidar district of Karnataka) and died in Kadali (a deep forest area, near Srisailam of Andra Pradesh).
		Akka becomes a distinctive phenomenon in the human history not merely by her style of dressing or unusual way of arguing.
		This dramatic situation of Kalyana Parva in Akka Mahadevi’s life is an indication of the beginning of the third phase of her life.
	www.ourkarnataka.com /religion/akka_mathapati.htm (2234 words)

	indiayogi.com - Indian Saints, Mystics, Philosophers & Gurus - Mahadeviyakka - A Great Female Shaiva Saint of South ...
		The articulation of that view however is first Mahadevi’s and she can thus be regarded as making an original and important contribution to the corpus of the faith.
		Mahadevi reached the stronghold of Shaiva bhaktas at the time, Kalyana, presided over by Basavanna and Allama for fellow rebels against the norms of the time.
		Mahadevi wandered off to Srisaila, the Holy Mountain, where she finally had the blissful merger with the Lord she so loved and, again a typical note of hagiography, disappeared from human eyes.
	www.indiayogi.com /content/indsaints/mahadeviyakka.asp (1355 words)

	The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Akka Mahadevi’s statue will grace a temple in Srisailam, where the 12th century mystic poet died.
		Akka was the first woman poet in Kannada, a stalwart of the radical Veerashaiva cult that believed in a casteless, classless, democratic society, a rebel who challenged patriarchal values 900 years ago.
		Akka belongs to this centuries-old tradition of women who snatched personal freedom from the jaws of oppressive custom.
	www.the-week.com /25jul03/columns_home.htm (641 words)

	Akka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Akka is also a pejorative term for wife, or old woman in the Finnish language.
		Akka is a fictive person (or a goose, in fact) in a children's novel, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by the Swedish nobelist Selma Lagerlöf.
		Akka also refers to Akka Mahadevi, a Lingayat saint of the 12th CE belonging to Karnataka state of India.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Akka (189 words)

	Mahadevi —
		Mahadevi left her marriage and place of birth to live the life of a wandering mendicant.
		Much of her poetry relates to the dialogues Mahadevi had with Allama as she was seeking to prove her spiritual intent.
		Mahadevi felt that outer rituals were mostly unimportant, what was important was the inner consecration the inner worship
	www.writespirit.net /authors/mahadevi (649 words)

	Akka - Definition up Erdmond.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Worship of akka was common, and took the form of sacrifices, pleas for help and various rituals.
		In Finnish mythology, she was called Tuonen akka ---- Noita-akka refers to a female practitioner of witchcraft.
		Akka is also a pejorative term for woman in the Finnish language.
	www.erdmond.com /Akka.html (239 words)

	walking naked reviews
		Mahadevi, whose short poems or vacanas in Kannada free verse, are exquisite jewels of oral tradition.
		Sometimes referred to simply as Akka (which means "older sister"), the poet was said to have run away from her arranged marriage in order to remain a devotee of Siva, whom she called Cenna Mallikarjuna.
		For bhakti devotees of Siva, like Mahadevi, "Siva is perpetually immanent in the individual as the soul of the soul, but yet is other than souls in his transcendence." Mahadevi's quest to fully know Siva thus simultaneously (and rather paradoxically) involves self-knowledge and self-transcendence.
	www.phillipzarrilli.com /productions/walkingnaked/reviews.htm (2520 words)

	Reaching the soul of India - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Akka Mahadevi’s vachanas give strength to a Spanish dancer now on a mission to explain Indian dance forms to audiences in Spanish villages.
		Karnataka’s 12th century mystic poet Akka Mahadevi is the source of inspiration for a 29-year-old Spanish dancer who is attracting rave responses in London and Spain for her renditions of Bharatnatyam and Kathakali.
		But it is Akka Mahadevi’s vachanas — the prose-poetry for which she was famous — which gives strength to Fuente who is now on a mission to explain Indian dance forms to audiences in remote Spanish villages.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/mar062005/fp4.asp (1192 words)

	Women composers
		Akka Mahadevi of the 12th-13th century, lived in Karnataka.
		Married to a king, she renounced all worldly pleasures, sang songs called 'Vachanas' and attained sainthood at the shrine of her beloved Chenna Mallikarjuna.
		Akka Mahadevi's Vachanas (literally, "sayings"), are free verse lyrics written in the Kannada language.
	www.chennaionline.com /music/Events/2005/02women.asp (493 words)

	Akkas, thangis invited to Rangayana's theatre festival-Bangalore-Cities-NEWS-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		these lines from celebrated hindi novelist krishna sobti's ai ladki reflect the theme of akka, a national theatre festival to be held by karnataka's state-run repertory, nataka karnataka rangayana, from november 18 to 25 in mysore.
		the rationale behind the name, according to rangayana director s prasanna: ``the elder sister or akka in kannada, is often surrogate mother to her siblings.
		we wanted to reflect this as the festival theme.'' akka is also connotative to the great kannada women poet, akka mahadevi, who was akka to the shiva sharana community around the 12th century social reformist-poet basavanna.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow.asp?art_id=1161849327 (492 words)

	The Music Magazine -- India's first and finest music e-zine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Seven of the eight vachanas on Side B are by Basavanna, and the eighth, sung by S Janaki, is by Akka Mahadevi.
		The late T G Lingappa's tune for Akka Mahadevi's Tanukaragadavaralli is based on raga Puriya Dhanasri, and it is a much loved song that makes it regularly to the radio programmes.
		Akka says she gets alms when she is hungry, drinks from the lakes and wells when she feels thirsty, finds temple ruins to sleep in, and above all, has Channamallikarjuna, her god, for companion.
	www.themusicmagazine.com /samyuktavach.html (1013 words)

	The Hindu : Name varsity after Akka Mahadevi: BJP
		The party's State unit President, H.N. Ananth Kumar, who launched the campaign by offering puja to an idol of Akka Mahadevi, said the demand for naming the university after the poet was made in the interest of protecting culture.
		He said that there could be no better name to the new university than that of Akka Mahadevi, whose ideal of social and gender equality, propagated in the 12th Century, had become the creed of higher education, particularly in the context of globalisation.
		Kumar said that BJP workers would stage a dharna in front of the statues of Basaweshwara and Akka Mahadevi all over the State to draw the Government's attention to its demand.
	www.hindu.com /2003/10/16/stories/2003101609210400.htm (309 words)

	Akka Mahadevi
		Akka Mahadevi lived during the 1100s in Karnataka, a region on the southwest coast of India.
		Akka Mahadevi's poems are vacanas (literally, "sayings"), free verse lyrics written in the Kannada language.
		(b) Although Akka Mahadevi is mentioned only once, this 2001 essay by Madhu Kishwar, "Traditional Female Moral Exemplars in India," is a useful introduction for western readers to the roles of women --- both deities and devotees.
	home.infionline.net /~ddisse/mahadevi.html (2126 words)

	A wake-up call for Hindus the world over
		She roamed the countryside of that region singing of Lord Shiva, and ultimately is said to have merged in him.
		Akka joined the Virashaiva community after her meeting with Saint Basavacharya and wrote 350 exquisite spiritual compositions.
		Akka and Lalleshvari defied the social norms by eschewing garments for they had surrendered their entire being to their deity and had no use for social norms.
	ivarta.com /columns/OL_060121.htm (4549 words)

	Reciting History
		This thinking, in fact, also led this playwright, director and documentary film-maker to make a film on on Mahadevi Akka, the 19th century Kannada poetess whose writings form an important segment of the popular Bhakti literature of the time.
		The reason being that she started the long-pending film with Mahadevi Akka and got so hooked to her unconventionally chiselled poems "which were mostly based on unorthodox use of female body as a metaphor, which was strangely not a taboo in those days".
		Beginning with a scene in Mumbai, the film inquires into the multiple construction of Mahadevi Akka played by Seema Biswas as in the conceptions that've evolved through community rituals, readings and representations in the works of contemporary artists.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20000319/ien19054.html (530 words)

	Vachana Sahitya with explanation in English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Association of those lost in life-cycle - akka mahAdevi.
		Wisdom is to nurture oneself not to act bloated - akka mahAdevi.
		Hold on to Holy Ash as the quick and reliable wealth - akka mahAdevi.
	www.shaivam.org /virdomain/vacsl.htm (139 words)

	Mahadevi — Poet Seers
		However even the leaders of this community Basavanna and Allama had some trouble accepting Mahadevi, they were somewhat disturbed by her naked appearance. However Allama was eventually impressed by both her humility and genuine spirituality and Mahadevi was accepted into the community.
		Despite her years of great tapas Mahadevi still had not had the ultimate experience of merging into the infinite – into her Chennamallikarjuna.
		Mahadevi Poetry - Poems of Mahadevi by various translators
	www.poetseers.org /spiritual_and_devotional_poets/india/mah (770 words)

	srramakrishna - Women find their pitch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It was a good time for research in this direction because, she says, "there was a lot of focus on women and women's creativity".
		The tune for "Akka kelavva", which she sang at Ananya, is Mallikarjuna Mansur's.
		Andal, Mira, and Akka devote all their lyrical attention to a god who they see as a lover.
	srramakrishna.googlepages.com /sakuntalalecdem (1325 words)

	Amazon.com: "Akka Mahadevi": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Akka Mahadevi, A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom presented by Whitall N. Perry (Louisville, 1992) 33...
		The regional and sectarian differences between, for example, Mira (Rajasthan), Akka Mahadevi (Karnataka), Lai Ded (Kashmir), and Muktabai 122...
		Songs and poems by the best known women poets of devotional Hinduism, such as Antl from Tamilnadu (ninth century), Akka Mahadevi (twelfth century), Jana Bai, Bahin Bai, Atukuri Moll, and others (fifteenth to eighteenth centuries), appear throughout this long period.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Akka-Mahadevi (516 words)

	Lives of Saints --- AkkaMahadevi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Selections from the discourse on Akka Mahadevi by Vasanti mataji, Westchester, Ca June 1 2002.
		She dares in her proclamation that she will not be manipulated by the machinations of this Maya of the Lord as she belongs to Him and to Him alone.
		This young, defiant and vibrant saint Akka Mahadevi attains Aikyastthala, the highest of the six states of Veerashaivism in the vicinity of the temple to Chennamallikaarjuna and Bhramaraambika.
	www.ambahouse.org /akkamahadevi.html (1545 words)

	Kalpana Films - Mukul Avijit Kishore, Scribbles on Akka
		The film starring Seema Biswas, Sabitri Heisnam and Harish Khanna, was directed by Madhusree Dutta, music by Ilyaraja and cinematography by Avijit Mukul Kishore.
		The film was made in three languages (Kannada, English and Hindi).
		Writings of Mahadevi Akka have inspired the femminist movements and persons believing in equality of all human beings.
	www.kalpana.it /eng/film/mukul/scribbles.htm (138 words)

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