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Ᾱtukūri Molla (Kummara Molla)

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#TukuriMolla

Ᾱtukūri Molla (Kummara Molla) · c. 1440–1530

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Poetry and mysticism — the sant tradition of north India: low-caste, vernacular, scripture-refusing devotion to a God without form.

“A weaver who by his own account never touched ink or paper left more quoted lines than any writer in the Hindi language — and refused, alive and dead, to let either religion own him, choosing to die in "cursed" Maghar to prove that no place, no book and no priest can save anyone.”
— The Great Indians, Ch. 123

The big idea, in the book's words:

“God is not in the mosque, the temple, the book, the ritual bath or the caste you were born into — and this can be said in two lines of street Hindi so sharp and so funny that five centuries later both establishments are still smarting.”
— The Great Indians, Ch. 123

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