The Lingayat movement led by Basava, Allama, Mahadevi and many others in Karnataka in the twelfth century stands as one of the important movements that challenged, protested and, to a major extent,...

Historical essays on Lingayat philosophy.

History of the Vīraśivaite (Lingayat) school in Hindu philosophy.

Study on the philosophy of Lingayat saint poets.

Epigrams of Lingayat saints of the 16th century espousing the Advaita school in Hindu philosophy; transcribed from a palm-leaf manuscript preserved in the Karnatak University.

Exhaustive work on Vīraśaivism; includes commentary in Kannada.

Comparison of the philosophy of Basava, fl. 1160, Lingayat founder leader, and other philosophers.

Comparison of the philosophy of Basava, active 1160, Lingayat founder leader, and other philosophers.

This reviewer had earlier had the misfortune of reviewing Sarah Jacoby's puerile book on Sera Khandro for Prabuddha Bharata. Jacoby had nearly made this reviewer puke. Same is the case with Bihani Sarkar's monograph. On the basis of this monograph she might win academic brownie points but it is a study which should have been dumped. The existence of the monograph is not only an insult to Hinduism and the Sanatana Dharma; it is technically wrong in its structuralist, iterative hermeneutics (...) which derives from the likes of Mircea Eliade. The reviewer knows that Sarkar will one day be a biggie in the first world peddling Hinduism ; she should have confined herself only to Sanskrit literature and not try to pass herself as a (faux) Hindu theologian. This book does no credit to the publisher. (shrink)

Festschrift honoring Swami Balagangadharnath, b. 1945, religious head from Śrī Ādicuñcanagiri Mahāsaṃsthāna Maṭha, Lingayat monastery; comprises contributed articles, chiefly on Hindu philosophy and a few on Kannada literature.

Discourses on Advaita philosophy as expounded in Anubhavasāra by Nijaguṇa Śivayōgi, fl. 1500, Lingayat religious leader; includes selections from the work.

Study of Vīraśaiva commentary on Brahmasutra along with the fundamentals of other systems on Hindu philosophy.

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Kāśī Hindu Viśvavidyālaya, 1994) under title: Śaktiviśishṭādvaita Vedānta, eka samīkshātmka anuśīlana.