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Oct 11, 2026
James MallinsonGUEST
But then a lot of them are very obscure.
James MallinsonGUEST
The most significant in terms of trying to understand where he came from is this Allama Prabhu, who becomes kind of one of the main saints of the Veerashaiva tradition from the Deccan region.
James MallinsonGUEST
And we don't find Allama Prabhu mentioned in any Sanskrit text, as far as I'm aware, in North India, and almost never in North India, but he doesn't kind of break out of that area ever, really, as a major force, even though the Veerashaivas are a big, important tradition in South India to this day, but they're very much localised.
James MallinsonGUEST
And in fact, I then show that a lot of the other Siddhas that he mentions, we only find other mentions of them from the southern part of the subcontinent.
James MallinsonGUEST
So I use that as an argument for where the text was written.
Raj BalkaranHOST
Hello, welcome back to New Books Network.
Raj BalkaranHOST
I'm your host, Dr Raj Walker, and more importantly, I have the pleasure of welcoming to the podcast today Professor N.S. Gundur, who has produced a brand new SUNY Press publication called Allama Prabhu and the Shaiva Imagination.
Raj BalkaranHOST
Welcome to the podcast.
N. S. GundurGUEST
Thank you.
N. S. GundurGUEST
Yeah.
N. S. GundurGUEST
Yeah.
N. S. GundurGUEST
Um, this is how, uh, you see the author of this, uh, Kannada text, Allama Prabhu and Mattu Shaiva Pratibe.
N. S. GundurGUEST
I have translated this into English as Allama Prabhu and the Shaiva Imagination.
N. S. GundurGUEST
Yeah, yeah.
N. S. GundurGUEST
This is how, you see, the author of this Kannada text, Allama Prabhu and Matto Shaiva Pratibhe, I have translated this into English as Allama Prabhu and the Shaiva Imagination.
N. S. GundurGUEST
D. R. Nagaraj was a professor of Kannada literature.
N. S. GundurGUEST
He taught at Bangalore University.
N. S. GundurGUEST
Then there was one central idea, you know, the book should speak from the Kannada world, from Kannada language to beyond the Kannada world, boundaries of Kannada world, like the anglophone readers.
N. S. GundurGUEST
So I was thinking which book would meet this criterion.
N. S. GundurGUEST
So then I made up my mind to translate D. R. Nagraj's Allama Prabhu, Mathu Shaiva Pratibhe.
N. S. GundurGUEST
And then I applied.
Raj WalkerHOST
Hello, welcome back to New Books Network.
Raj WalkerHOST
I'm your host, Dr Raj Walker, and more importantly, I have the pleasure of welcoming to the podcast today Professor N.S. Gundur, who has produced a brand-new SUNY Press publication called Allama Prabhu and the Shaiva Imagination.
Raj WalkerHOST
Welcome to the podcast.
N.S. GundurGUEST
Thank you.
Raj WalkerHOST
So you have to tell us about your interest in this work and how you, how, how you were drawn towards the work at hand, and I'd like you to comment maybe a little bit about the, the extent to which you too were translated by the work.
N.S. GundurGUEST
Yeah, yeah.
N.S. GundurGUEST
Um, th- this is how, uh, you see, uh, the author of this, uh, Kannada text, Allama Prabhu and Mattu Shaiva Pratibe, I have translated this into English as Allama Prabhu and the Shaiva Imagination.
N.S. GundurGUEST
Uh, D.R. Nagaraj was a professor of, uh, Kannada literature.
N.S. GundurGUEST
Yeah, yeah.
N.S. GundurGUEST
This is how, you see, the author of this Kannada text, Allama Prabhu and Mathu Shaiva Pratibhe, I have translated this into English as Allama Prabhu and the Shaiva imagination.
N.S. GundurGUEST
D. R. Nagaraj was a professor of Kannada literature.
N.S. GundurGUEST
He taught at Bangalore University and then later at Chicago.
N.S. GundurGUEST
Then there was one central idea, you know, the book should speak from the Kannada world, from Kannada language to beyond the Kannada world, boundaries of Kannada world, like the anglophone readers.
N.S. GundurGUEST
So I was thinking which book would meet this criterion.
N.S. GundurGUEST
So then I made up my mind to translate D. R. Nagraj's Allama Prabhu, Mattu Shaiva Pratibhe.
N.S. GundurGUEST
And then I applied, I got through it, and I got the fellowship, and I took almost three to four years to complete this book.