Sacred Lives
Lives that became teachings, read as their own biography.
Bhagavan Ramana and his devoteesSri Ramana Maharshi, Ramana Periya Puranam, Bhagavan’s Devotees in Treasure Trove…
- Sri Ramana MaharshiThe life of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, told by Sri V. Ganesan in Flight of the Flame.
- Ramana Periya PuranamSri V. Ganesan’s accounts of seventy-five of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi’s old devotees, one chapter to each, with the photographs he printed.
- Bhagavan’s Devotees in Treasure TroveTwenty-six of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi’s devotees whose lives Sri V. Ganesan tells in Treasure Trove of Sri Bhagavan’s Grace, and not in Ramana Periya Puranam or Meetings with Sages and Saints, with the photographs he printed.
- Sri V. GanesanThe story of Sri V. Ganesan in his own words, gathered from his books, and his book of teachings, Drops from the Ocean.
Saints and sages of our timeSri Ramakrishna, Sri Narayana Guru, Swami Vivekananda…
- Sri RamakrishnaM.'s own English record of Sri Ramakrishna's conversations with his disciples and visitors at Dakshineswar, Calcutta and Cossipore, 1882 to 1886.
- Sri Narayana GuruA Tatpada edition of the life of Śrī Nārāyaṇa Guru (1855/56–1928), reformer, philosopher and consecrator of temples across Kerala, with twelve of his own works in Malayalam and Sanskrit, each word glossed.
- Swami VivekanandaA Tatpada edition of the life of Swami Vivekananda, told largely in his own words.
- YogaswamiA Tatpada edition of the life of the sage of Jaffna, with a selection of his songs and sayings.
- Swami RamdasIn Quest of God, the first book of his autobiography: his first year as a wandering monk, chanting the Name across India from Srirangam to the Himalayas.
- Mother KrishnabaiGuru’s Grace, her own story, told throughout to her Guru and translated into English by him, Swami Ramdas: her childhood and widowhood, her years of seeking, and her life beside him at Anandashram.
- Swami SivanandaAutobiography of Swami Sivananda, his own account: his boyhood, his years as a doctor in Malaya, renunciation and sadhana at Rishikesh, and the founding and work of The Divine Life Society.
- Paramahansa YoganandaAutobiography of a Yogi, his own story: his boyhood in Bengal, the saints he sought out, his years with his guru Sri Yukteswar, and his work in America.
- Shirdi Sai BabaHemadpant’s Marathi life of Shirdi Sai Baba in ovi verse, fifty-two chapters and a closing fifty-third by Balasaheb Dev, with Tatpada’s English beside every ovi.
- Sri Sathya Sai BabaLetters that Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba wrote or dictated to devotees, students and friends, on devotion, service, faith and taking refuge in the Name.
- Sri Sai Das BabajiThe saint who showed the world Sai Prema
- Arthur HillcoatThe Maharishi of Mt Tamborine, whom Sri Sathya Sai Baba called the Lion
- Sri Satchitananda SaiDiscourses on Uḷḷadu Nāṟpadu, the Mukunda Mālā and other works
Ṛṣis and ṚṣikāsṚṣis and Ṛṣikās, Agastya, Vasiṣṭha…
- Ṛṣis and ṚṣikāsThe seers of India, men and women: those who saw the hymns of the Veda, taught in the Upaniṣads, and walk through the Rāmāyaṇa, the Mahābhārata and the Purāṇas.
- AgastyaWith Lopāmudrā and VasiṣṭhaBorn from a jar, he saw hymns of the Ṛgveda, ate a demon, drank the ocean, made the Vindhya sink and carried the Kāviri south, where the Tamil land calls him its own sage.
- VasiṣṭhaWith Arundhatī, Viśvāmitra, Agastya and ParāśaraSeer of the Ṛgveda's seventh book and priest of the kings of Ayodhyā down to Rāma, he met Viśvāmitra's weapons with one staff, outlived a hundred sons, and named his old rival a brahmarṣi.
- ViśvāmitraWith Vasiṣṭha and JamadagniA king who became a brahmin seer by austerity alone: he fought Vasiṣṭha, made a heaven for Triśaṅku, saw the Gāyatrī, and took the boy Rāma from Ayodhyā and gave him his weapons.
- YājñavalkyaWith Gārgī and MaitreyīThe sage who gave back his teacher's Veda and received a new one from the Sun, won Janaka's thousand cows against every questioner, and taught his wife Maitreyī the way to immortality.
- AtriWith Anasūyā and DurvāsaThe seer born from Brahmā's eye who found the Sun when a demon hid it in darkness, and to whom Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva came together on Mount Ṛkṣa.
- BharadvājaWith VālmīkiThe sage who studied the Veda for three lifetimes and learned it was endless, father of Droṇa and of Yavakrīta, who sheltered Rāma and feasted Bharata's army at Prayāga.
- BhṛguWith JamadagniThe seer who went five times to his father Varuṇa to be taught Brahman, until he knew that Brahman is bliss; he cursed Agni to devour all things, cursed Śiva's followers when Dakṣa and Śiva quarrelled, and kicked Viṣṇu, who bowed to him.
- DadhīciThe son of Atharvan who taught the Aśvins the honey of knowledge through a horse's head, and gave his own body so that a thunderbolt for Indra could be made from his bones.
- VālmīkiWith Nārada and BharadvājaThe first poet: a robber turned to Rāma's name by seven sages, he made the first verse out of grief for a bird, saw Rāma's whole story, sheltered Sītā and taught her sons to sing it.
- VyāsaWith Parāśara, Śuka and NāradaBorn on a Yamunā island to Satyavatī and Parāśara, he divided the Veda, made the Mahābhārata, fathered Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Pāṇḍu and Vidura, and set down the Bhāgavata for his son Śuka.
- NāradaWith Vālmīki, Vyāsa and ŚukaThe divine sage who wanders singing of Hari: once a serving woman's son who saw the Lord in a forest, he set Vālmīki and Vyāsa to their work and taught Dhruva and the unborn Prahlāda.
- MārkaṇḍeyaThe long-lived sage of Bhṛgu's line who overcame death by austerity, asked to see the Lord's māyā, and saw the world drowned and a child lying on a banyan leaf.
- KapilaWith DevahūtiThe Lord born as the son of Kardama and Devahūti, who taught his mother the Sāṃkhya and the yoga of devotion, and in whose presence King Sagara's sixty thousand sons were turned to ash.
- ŚukaWith Vyāsa and NāradaVyāsa's son, born from the fire-sticks, who walked to Mithilā to question Janaka, rose from the Himālaya into the sky, and became one with all things, so that the world answered when his father called.
- DurvāsaWith Atri and AnasūyāAtri's son, born of Śiva's portion, quick to curse and quick to bless: he cost Indra the fortune of the worlds, gave Kuntī her mantra, and fled Viṣṇu's discus until Ambarīṣa saved him.
- ParāśaraWith Vasiṣṭha and VyāsaVasiṣṭha's grandson, who recited the Veda in the womb and called his grandfather back from death, burned the rākṣasas until he was asked to stop, fathered Vyāsa, and told the Viṣṇu Purāṇa to Maitreya.
- AṣṭāvakraCursed in the womb to be born bent in eight places, he went at twelve to Janaka's court, defeated Bandin in debate and so won his drowned father back from the sea.
- GautamaAhalyā's husband, whose curse lasted until Rāma came to his empty hermitage near Mithilā, and who fed the sages through a long drought and brought down from Śiva's hair the river called the Gautamī.
- JamadagniWith Viśvāmitra, Bhṛgu and KaśyapaṚcīka's son and Paraśurāma's father, a brahmin born to the bow, who drew it against the Sun for his wife's sake and was killed in his hermitage by the sons of Kārtavīrya.
- KaśyapaWith JamadagniMarīci's son, father of gods and demons, serpents and Garuḍa, who counselled his son on the way to the nectar and taught Aditi the vow by which the Lord was born as her son.
- ṚbhuBrahmā's son who came twice, unrecognised, to his pupil Nidāgha, once asking for a meal and once watching a king pass on an elephant, until Nidāgha saw that there is no second.
- LopāmudrāWith AgastyaA princess of Vidarbha made by a seer, she chose Agastya when no man dared ask for her, lived beside him in austerity, asked for one son worth a thousand, and speaks in her own hymn in the Ṛgveda.
- ArundhatīWith Vasiṣṭha, Devahūti and AnasūyāVasiṣṭha's wife, whose austerity through a twelve-year drought Śiva held greater than the seven seers', whose form no one could take, and whose name became the measure of a faithful wife.
- GārgīWith Yājñavalkya and MaitreyīThe woman who rose twice in King Janaka's assembly to question Yājñavalkya, and drew from him the teaching of the imperishable on which space itself is woven.
- MaitreyīWith Yājñavalkya and GārgīYājñavalkya's wife, who spoke of Brahman: offered a share of his wealth when he left home, she asked whether the whole earth would make her immortal, and received his teaching of the Self instead.
- AnasūyāWith Atri, Devahūti, Durvāsa and ArundhatīAtri's wife, who brought back the day when a faithful wife's word had stopped the sun, made the Gaṅgā flow in a drought, and took Sītā into her care in the forest.
- DevahūtiWith Kapila, Anasūyā and ArundhatīManu's daughter and the sage Kardama's wife, who served him until her body grew thin, asked her son Kapila to free her from I and mine, and reached freedom by his teaching.
- GhoṣāA king's daughter who grew old in her father's house and called on the Aśvins, the healers, to stand by her day and night; they gave her a husband, and two of the Ṛgveda's hymns to the Aśvins are hers.
- ApālāThe girl who found soma by the water, pressed it with her teeth for Indra, and was given a skin like the sun; her hymn tells it, nearly all in her own words.
- ViśvavārāThe woman of the Ṛgveda who goes eastward at dawn to the kindled fire with the ladle of ghee, and asks Agni to make the bond of husband and wife well ordered.
- Vāk ĀmbhṛṇīThe seer to whom the Ṛgveda's hymn of Speech is given: I am the queen, the first of those worthy of worship; whom I love, I make a seer.
- SulabhāA wandering woman of yoga who entered King Janaka's mind to test whether he was free, and answered his charges before his whole court until he had nothing more to say.
- CūḍālāWith VasiṣṭhaThe queen who came to rest in the Self while her husband laughed at her, ruled his kingdom when he fled to the forest, and went to him as the boy-sage Kumbha until he too was free.
- MadālasāThe gandharva princess born again from a nāga king's hood, who sang her infant sons awake to the Self, taught Alarka a king's duty at her husband's asking, and left him a ring that sent him to Dattātreya.
The Tamil Śaiva saintsThe Sixty-Three Nāyaṉmārs, Appar, Sambandar…
- The Sixty-Three NāyaṉmārsA Tatpada edition of the lives of the sixty-three Tamil Śaiva saints, told as the tradition tells them and in the order Sundarar sang their names, with Māṇikkavācakar beside them at the close.
- ApparA Tatpada edition of Appar’s life in 13 chapters, from his years as a Jain monk to his death at Tirupugalur, with ten of his Tēvāram hymns chosen from the fourth to the sixth Tirumuṟai: 102 verses.
- SambandarA Tatpada edition of Sambandar’s life in 14 chapters, from the milk-vision at Sirkazhi to his wedding at Achalpuram, with ten of his Tēvāram hymns chosen from the first to the third Tirumuṟai: 111 verses.
- SundararNine of Sundarar’s Tēvāram hymns, chosen for Tatpada from the seventh Tirumuṟai: 92 verses.
- MāṇikkavācakarMāṇikkavācakar’s life in twelve chapters, the minister who spent a king’s horse-money on a temple, with his two works: the Tiruvācakam, fifty-one sections of Tamil devotional verse to Śiva, and the Tirukkōvaiyār, four hundred verses in the akam love-poetry convention.
- Paṭṭiṉattu PiḷḷaiyārThe merchant of Pukār who gave everything to Śiva: his life in twelve chapters, and the 210 poems he sang at five shrines, gathered in the eleventh Tirumuṟai.
- AruṇagirinātarA ruined young man, the story says, threw himself from the great tower of Tiruvaṇṇāmalai and was saved, and spent the rest of his life singing to the one who saved him.
- TāyumānavarTāyumānavar was a Tamil poet of Śiva who sang of stillness.
The ĀzhvārsPoigai Āzhvār, Bhūthathāzhvār, Pēy Āzhvār…
- Poigai ĀzhvārThe devotional Tamil hymns of Poigai Āzhvār, one of the twelve Vaiṣṇava Āzhvār poet-saints.
- BhūthathāzhvārThe devotional Tamil hymns of Bhūthathāzhvār, one of the twelve Vaiṣṇava Āzhvār poet-saints.
- Pēy ĀzhvārThe devotional Tamil hymns of Pēy Āzhvār, one of the twelve Vaiṣṇava Āzhvār poet-saints.
- Thirumazhisai ĀzhvārThe devotional Tamil hymns of Thirumazhisai Āzhvār, one of the twelve Vaiṣṇava Āzhvār poet-saints.
- NammāzhvārThe devotional Tamil hymns of Nammāzhvār, one of the twelve Vaiṣṇava Āzhvār poet-saints.
- Madhurakavi ĀzhvārThe devotional Tamil hymns of Madhurakavi Āzhvār, one of the twelve Vaiṣṇava Āzhvār poet-saints.
- Kulasēkara ĀzhvārThe devotional Tamil hymns of Kulasēkara Āzhvār, one of the twelve Vaiṣṇava Āzhvār poet-saints.
- PeriyāzhvārThe devotional Tamil hymns of Periyāzhvār, one of the twelve Vaiṣṇava Āzhvār poet-saints.
- ĀṇḍāḷThe devotional Tamil hymns of Āṇḍāḷ, one of the twelve Vaiṣṇava Āzhvār poet-saints.
- Thoṇḍaraḍippoḍi ĀzhvārThe devotional Tamil hymns of Thoṇḍaraḍippoḍi Āzhvār, one of the twelve Vaiṣṇava Āzhvār poet-saints.
- Thiruppāṇ ĀzhvārThe devotional Tamil hymns of Thiruppāṇ Āzhvār, one of the twelve Vaiṣṇava Āzhvār poet-saints.
- Thirumaṅgai ĀzhvārThe devotional Tamil hymns of Thirumaṅgai Āzhvār, one of the twelve Vaiṣṇava Āzhvār poet-saints.
Rāmānuja and his lineageNāthamuni, Uyyakkoṇḍār, Maṇakkāl Nambi…
- NāthamuniNāthamuni went looking for the lost words of the Āzhvārs, recited Kaṇṇinuṇ Siṟuttāmpu twelve thousand times before Nammāzhvār, and came home with them and their meanings.
- UyyakkoṇḍārUyyakkoṇḍār, first named of Nāthamuni's eight disciples, put off learning the secret of yoga and was charged instead with spreading the Tiruvāymozhi and its meanings.
- Maṇakkāl NambiMaṇakkāl Nambi served Uyyakkoṇḍār for twelve years, then brought greens to the kitchen of Nāthamuni's grandson, by then a king, until he could teach him.
- ĀḷavandārĀḷavandār, Nāthamuni's grandson, won half a kingdom in debate, gave it up to serve the Lord at Śrīraṅgam, and died before Rāmānuja could reach him.
- Periya NambiPeriya Nambi gave Rāmānuja the five sacraments under a Makizh tree, and died at the edge of a field after the Cōzha blinded him.
- Tirukkacci NambiTirukkacci Nambi fanned the Lord at Kāñcī and brought Rāmānuja six words from Him, the last of them sending him to Periya Nambi.
- Tirukkōṭṭiyūr NambiTirukkōṭṭiyūr Nambi gave Rāmānuja the meaning of the eight syllables only after he had walked to Tirukkōṭṭiyūr eighteen times.
- Periya Tirumalai NambiPeriya Tirumalai Nambi, Rāmānuja's uncle on the hill of Tiruvēṅkaṭam, named him on his twelfth day and later taught him the Rāmāyaṇa for a year.
- Tirumālai ĀṇḍāṉTirumālai Āṇḍāṉ taught Rāmānuja the Tiruvāymozhi as he had heard it from Āḷavandār.
- Tiruvaraṅga Perumāḷ AraiyarTiruvaraṅga Perumāḷ Araiyar, the singer of Śrīraṅgam, won Rāmānuja from Kāñcī with song and taught him that the ācārya is the means and the goal.
- Bhagavad RāmānujaAn original Tatpada life of Bhagavad Rāmānuja, in seven parts for reading aloud over seven days, with Tiruvaraṅgattu Amudaṉār’s hundred and eight verses in his praise.
- Kūrattāzhvāṉ and ĀṇḍāḷKūrattāzhvāṉ wrote down the Śrī Bhāṣya as Rāmānuja spoke it and gave his eyes before the Cōzha, and his wife Āṇḍāḷ outlived him and their son Bhaṭṭar.
- MudaliyāṇḍāṉMudaliyāṇḍāṉ, Rāmānuja's sister's son and his triple staff, was given away by him as a dowry servant and later held the temple's sceptre at Śrīraṅgam.
- AnantāzhvāṉAnantāzhvāṉ stood up when Rāmānuja asked for a flower garden on Tirumalai, went and made one, and named it Irāmānucaṉ.
- Vaḍuga NambiVaḍuga Nambi, whom Rāmānuja took in at Sāḷagrāmam, worshipped nothing but Rāmānuja's sandals and would take the water of no one's feet but his.
- Piḷḷai Uṟaṅgāvilli Dāsar and PoṉṉācciyārPiḷḷai Uṟaṅgāvilli Dāsar kept Rāmānuja's treasury and gave him his hand at the river, and Poṉṉācciyār swept the child Bhaṭṭar up at Kūreśa's gate.
- Tiruvaraṅgattu AmudaṉārTiruvaraṅgattu Amudaṉār, once the temple priest who did Rāmānuja wrong, was won over by Kūreśa and made a hundred verses on Rāmānuja.
- YādavaprakāśaYādavaprakāśa taught the young Rāmānuja Vedānta and plotted his death, then took the triple staff from his hand and became Govinda Jīyar.
- Aruḷāḷa Perumāḷ EmperumāṉārAruḷāḷa Perumāḷ Emperumāṉār came to debate Rāmānuja as the scholar Yajñamūrti, set Rāmānuja's sandals on his head, and later wrote the Jñānasāram and the Prameyasāram.
- Kiḍāmbi ĀccāṉKiḍāmbi Āccāṉ, who cared for Rāmānuja's body as no one else did, cooked all his food after poison was put in his alms.
- Naḍātūr ĀzhvāṉNaḍātūr Āzhvāṉ, Rāmānuja's sister's son, was one of his companions in the study of the Śrī Bhāṣya.
- The seventy-four, the women and the ekāṅgisThe seventy-four teachers who held seats under Rāmānuja stand here with the women and the ekāṅgis, each remembered by a name, a duty or a single scene.
- EmbārEmbār, Rāmānuja's cousin, warned him of the plot on the road to the Gaṅgā, was won back from Kāḷahasti, and became the shadow of his feet.
- PiḷḷāṉPiḷḷāṉ, whom Rāmānuja took as his son in knowledge, wrote the Six Thousand, the first commentary on the Tiruvāymozhi, at his command.
- Parāśara BhaṭṭarParāśara Bhaṭṭar, Kūreśa's son, was given the darśana to carry and won the scholar Vedānti in debate.
- NañjīyarNañjīyar, once the scholar Vedānti of the western country, wrote the Nine Thousand on the Tiruvāymozhi and gave all his meanings to Nampiḷḷai.
The Recognition lineageVasugupta, Somānanda, Utpaladeva…
- VasuguptaVasugupta found the Śiva Sūtras on Mahādeva mountain and gave them to Kallaṭa; the story of the dream and the rock is told one way by Kṣemarāja and another by Bhāskara.
- SomānandaSomānanda traced his line from the sage Durvāsas through the cave of Tryambaka and fourteen siddhas to Kashmir, and wrote the Śivadṛṣṭi on a command received in a dream.
- UtpaladevaUtpaladeva, Somānanda's student and the son of Udayākara, set out the Recognition of the Lord because he was ashamed to keep the wealth of being Maheśvara's servant to himself.
- AbhinavaguptaA Tatpada edition of the life of the master of Kashmir who drew its whole teaching together, told from his own verses about himself and his teachers.
- KṣemarājaKṣemarāja, Abhinavagupta's student, wrote on Vasugupta's sūtras and the Spanda verses, and drew the Recognition into twenty sūtras for those on whom grace had fallen.
- The Recognition LineageThe lives of the five masters of the Recognition, from Vasugupta to Kṣemarāja, in two parts: the two beginnings and teacher to student, told where they can be in their own Sanskrit.
- LallāHer life in twelve chapters, with her sixty sayings in the Kashmiri of the fourteenth century, each with its English.
The Vārkarī saintsNivruttinath, Sant Jnaneshwar, Sopan Dev…
- NivruttinathA Tatpada life of Nivṛttināth, the eldest of the four Āḷandī children and the guru who initiated his brother Jñāndev.
- Sant JnaneshwarA Tatpada life of Jñāndev, the Āḷandī-born saint who wrote the Jñāneśvarī and took his samādhi there around 1296, told from the *Bhaktavijaya* and the *Bhaktalīlāmṛta*.
- Sopan DevA Tatpada life of Sopāndev, the third of the four Āḷandī children, whom the *Bhaktavijaya* holds to be an avatar of Brahmadev.
- MuktabaiA Tatpada life of Muktābāī, the youngest of the four Āḷandī children, remembered above all for the *tāṭīce abhaṅga* she sang at her brother's closed door.
- Sant NamdevA Tatpada life of Nāmdev, the tailor's son of Paṇḍharpūr whose own abhaṅgas are this book's earliest witness for several of its central scenes.
- Sant JanabaiA Tatpada life of Janābāī, who served in Nāmdev's household at Paṇḍharpūr and signed her own abhaṅgas "Nāmā's maidservant Jani."
- ChokhamelaA Tatpada life of Cokhāmeḷā, a Mahār of Paṇḍharpūr and Maṅgaḷveḍhe who worshipped his whole life from outside the temple door he was not permitted to enter.
- Savata MaliA Tatpada life of Sāvatā Māḷī, a gardener the tradition says never once made the pilgrimage to Paṇḍharpūr.
- Gora KumbharA Tatpada life of Gorā Kumbhār, the potter the other Vārkarī saints called uncle, being the eldest among them.
- Sena NhaviA Tatpada life of Senā Nhāvī, a barber remembered above all for the one morning the god is said to have taken his place at the razor.
- Narahari SonarA Tatpada life of Narahari Sonār, a goldsmith and lifelong Śaiva who for most of his life wanted nothing to do with Viṭṭhal.
- KanhopatraA Tatpada life of Kānhopātrā, a courtesan's daughter of Maṅgaḷveḍhe who refused the one use her town had for her beauty.
- BhanudasA Tatpada life of Bhānudās, the Paiṭhaṇ cloth merchant who went alone to Vijayanagara and brought the image of Viṭṭhal back to Paṇḍharpūr.
- Damaji PantA Tatpada life of Dāmājīpant, a revenue officer at Maṅgaḷveḍhe under the Bidar sultanate.
- BahinabaiHer own first-person testimony of her life, in 78 abhangs, with a Tatpada selection from the rest of her abhangs alongside it — the songs of her last days and nine on the mind, devotion, the guru and the Name.
The Dattātreya lineageŚrī Narasiṃha Sarasvatī, Swami Samarth of Akkalkot
- Śrī Narasiṃha SarasvatīThe Marathi ovi text recounting the lives of Śrīpāda Śrīvallabha and Narasiṃha Sarasvatī, the first two guru-avatars of the Datta Sampradaya.
- Swami Samarth of AkkalkotA 21-chapter Marathi ovi-verse hagiography of Śrī Swāmī Samartha of Akkalkoṭa, completed in Śaka 1819 (1897 CE) — a saint the Datta Sampradaya holds as a later manifestation in the lineage the Gurucaritra ends with.
The saints of North IndiaKabīr, Pīpā, Ravidās…
- KabīrAn original Tatpada life of Kabīr, weaver and poet of Banaras, in four parts for reading aloud, told together with Ravidās and Pīpā as the three took one teacher at one ghāṭ; with 147 of his songs.
- PīpāAn original Tatpada life of Pīpā, the king of Gagaraungarh who left his throne, told together with Kabīr and Ravidās as the three took one teacher at one ghāṭ; with his own song.
- RavidāsAn original Tatpada life of Ravidās, tanner and poet of Banaras, in two parts for reading aloud, told together with Kabīr and Pīpā as the three took one teacher at one ghāṭ; with 40 of his songs.
- SūrdāsAn original Tatpada life of the poet-saint Sūrdās, blind singer of Braj, in five parts for reading aloud over five days.
- MīrābāīForty-seven of the songs sung in the name of the Rajput princess who took Kṛṣṇa, Giridhar Nāgar, as her only lord, each word of them glossed.
- Gosvāmī TulsīdāsAn original Tatpada life of Gosvāmī Tulsīdās, author of the Rāmcaritmānas, in seven parts for reading aloud, together with eight of his own compositions in full, from the Hanumān Cālīsā to the Vinaya Patrikā.
The Advaita saints of Tamil NaduSadāśiva Brahmendra Sarasvatī, Avudai Akkal
- Sadāśiva Brahmendra SarasvatīAn eighteenth-century Tamil Nadu avadhūta who kept lifelong silence: his Ātmavidyāvilāsa (62 āryā verses on the state of one free while still living) and eighteen kīrtanas, with his earliest recorded life.
- Avudai AkkalA Tatpada edition of the life of the widow of Senkottai who sang the highest teaching of Advaita in the plainest Tamil, in the song-forms women sang at their work, with ten of her songs, each word of them glossed.