Mirabai
Mira Bai: Her Life and Times (Hermann Goetz)
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Mira Bai: Her Life and Times (Hermann Goetz)
Mira Bai: Her Life and Times
An early attempt to reconstruct Mira's historical biography from Rajput genealogies, bardic chronicles and local traditions; many of the dates that are still repeated today come from it and are now considered conjectural.
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Authorship note
An essay by the German art historian Hermann Goetz (1898-1976).
Editions and translations
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English
Mirabai
Mira Bai: Her Life and Times
The Conscious LibraryMira Bai: Her Life and Times
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1966
Other works by Mirabai
- Padavali (Mirabai's songs)
- "Mere to Giridhar Gopal" ("Mine is Giridhar Gopal")
- "Payoji maine Ram ratan dhan payo" ("I have found the jewel of Ram's name")
- Narsi ji ro Mahero
- Commentary on the Gita Govinda
- Rag Govind
- Padas in raga Sorath
- Three Bhakti Voices (John Stratton Hawley) · 2005
- Upholding the Common Life (Parita Mukta) · 1994
- Mirabai: The Making of a Saint (Nancy M. Martin) · 2023
Sources
- Goetz, Hermann. Mira Bai: Her Life and Times. Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1966.
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