Ᾱtukūri Molla (Kummara Molla)#Tukuri
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#Tukuri Molla
Ᾱtukūri Molla (Kummara Molla) · c. 1440–1530
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Who this is
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 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.”
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