Akka Mahadevi of India Circa 1130–Circa 1160

In Mary Ellen Waithe & Therese Boos Dykeman, Women Philosophers from Non-western Traditions: The First Four Thousand Years. Springer Verlag. pp. 315-338 (2023)
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Akka Mahadevi, 1130–1160, was one of the leaders of Virasaivism (literally ‘Heroic-Saivism’), a major philosophical and socio-religious movement of medieval India. In this chapter I describe her contributions to Hindu philosophy against the background of the emergence of the Lingayot movement. A radical, she was a philosopher of Virasaivism and became known as “the naked saint”. Her writings are today considered to be less radical than relevant in their denial of caste and gender as morally, spiritually or intellectually significant.

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