Description :Music and dance as integral parts of services offered to a deity in a temple are known to Karnataka since the 7th century. Many Jiana, Brahmana and Virasaiva poets in Kannada describe dances performed in temples. Present study will be confined to the presentation od some epigraphical evidence for the practice of devadasi paddhati in temples. The term devadasi of its synonym devaganika in devaditi is only occasionally employed in literary or epigraphical reference in Kranataka. The word devadasi is used to mean a dencer dedicated to a temple in inscription of 1113 AD in Shimoga. After 11th or 12th centuries the word devadasi meant an auxiliary dancer or a woman who perfromed non aesthetic or functional chores. The growth was the devadasi paddhati in its medieval phase in Karnataka.
Source :Sangeet Natak Akademi
Type :Article
Received From :Sangeet Natak Akademi
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Sathyanarayana, R.
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Karnataka
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2017-07-05T21:19:03Z
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2017-07-05T21:19:03Z
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1990
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Music and dance as integral parts of services offered to a deity in a temple are known to Karnataka since the 7th century. Many Jiana, Brahmana and Virasaiva poets in Kannada describe dances performed in temples. Present study will be confined to the presentation od some epigraphical evidence for the practice of devadasi paddhati in temples. The term devadasi of its synonym devaganika in devaditi is only occasionally employed in literary or epigraphical reference in Kranataka. The word devadasi is used to mean a dencer dedicated to a temple in inscription of 1113 AD in Shimoga. After 11th or 12th centuries the word devadasi meant an auxiliary dancer or a woman who perfromed non aesthetic or functional chores. The growth was the devadasi paddhati in its medieval phase in Karnataka.
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