HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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stressed the rigidities of traditional rituals.
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opposed the practice of image worship.
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advocated the austerities preached by the Buddhists and Jams.
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preached personal devotion of God as a means of salvation.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The term ‘Bhakthi’ refers to ‘devotion’. As a movement, it emphasized on the mutual intense emotional attachment and love of a devotee toward a personal god and of the god for the devotee. This movement originated in South India in the 7th and 10th CE, mostly in the poems of Alvars and Nayanars.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Alvars on one hand were devotees of Lord Vishnu and his avatars while on the other hand Nayanars were devotees of Lord Shiva and avatars of him. Answer: They both played a crucial role in the Bhakti Movement in India in the southern part during the period of 5-10 century.
Detailed explanation-3: -They preached the love of Shiva or Vishnu as the path to salvation.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Nayanars and Alvars were the Tamil poet-saints who played a key role in propagating the Bhakti Movement in Southern India during the 5th-10th Centuries. The Nayanars were a group of 63 saints devoted to Lord Shiva who lived during the 6th to 8th centuries CE.