Medieval Indian Literature: Surveys and selections

15th century appeared beauty became become began beginning belonging Bengali bhakti body born called caste character common composed composition continued court culture death described devotion drama early expression feet give given gods Guru hand Hari hear heart husband important India influence kavya kind king known Krishna language later literary literature lived look Lord Mahabharata Marathi means medieval mention metre mind mother movement Muslim narrative nature original padas period Persian person philosophy play poem poetic poetry poets popular present prose Punjabi Purana Rama Ramayana rasa religious rule saints Sanskrit says scholars sect seems Shah Shiva Sindhi social society songs spiritual started story style Sufi Tamil Telugu theme took tradition translation Tukaram vachanas Vaishnava various verses whole wife writing written wrote