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Bhajan
A South Indian genre of storytelling with religious themes that combines poetry, philosophy, song, dance and theatre. Sastri usually gives harikathas in Kanthapura, and Moorthy pays Jayaramchar to give a harikatha about Gandhi in the village.
Harikatha Quotes in Kanthapura
The Kanthapura quotes below are all either spoken by Harikatha or refer to Harikatha. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Section 1 Quotes
Siva himself will forthwith go and incarnate on the Earth and free my beloved daughter from her enforced slavery.
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After Moorthy hires the famous harikatha-man Jayaramachar to visit Kanthapura, Achakka paraphrases Jayaramachar’s discourse about a conversation between the creator god, Brahma, and a great sage who accuses Brahma of neglecting his daughter Bharatha (the traditional Sanskrit word for India) by allowing her to be colonized by the British. At this point in his story, Jayaramachar argues that the great transformer god Siva has been incarnated on Earth as Mahatma Gandhi at Brahma’s request. Equating Gandhi with Siva allows Moorthy’s movement to gain momentum, since it frames Gandhism’s demand for Indian independence (swaraj) within the villagers’ existing religious beliefs. Later Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. M
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Harikatha Term Timeline in Kanthapura
The timeline below shows where the term Harikatha appears in Kanthapura. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Section 1
Sometimes, the poet Sastri delivers Harikathas—he has been honored by the Maharaja of Mysore and, according to rumors, even has a...
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...and Ganesh. He asks Achakka for money, which would enable them to bring the best Harikatha-men from afar to perform in Kanthapura. She gives him a rupee—a lot of money for...
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...not know what to do with all her money—and the festival is extravagant. The famous Harikatha-man Jayaramachar performs, telling a story permeated with lessons about Swaraj. Then, he tells the story...
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