• list of notable Lingayats: Basavanna Allama Prabhu Akka Mahadevi Channabasavanna Devar Dasimayya Madivala Machideva Siddharama – of Solapur, Maharashtra...
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    12th-century adherents of this faith are known as Lingayats. Lingayatism is known for its unique practice of Ishtalinga worship, where adherents carry a personal...
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    Vachana sahitya (category Lingayatism)
    issues and personal devotion. They were composed in Kannada by saints of the Lingayat faith, most notably Basavanna, Akka Mahadevi, and Allama Prabhu. Vachanas...
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    Basava (category Lingayat poets)
    mundane questions of life, in open. The traditional legends and hagiographic texts state Basava to be the founder of the Lingayats. However, modern scholarship...
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    Allama Prabhu (category Lingayat poets)
    Vacanas: Some poems of Allamaprabhu and other Virasaiva saints, MD Shirley Lingayats as a Sect, William McCormack (1963), The Journal of the Royal Anthropological...
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    Siddheshwar (category Lingayat saints)
    among the five acharya ("saint") of the Veerashaiva faith. Siddheshwar was a great contributor to Lingayat sampradaya of Hinduism. He was a great mystic...
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  • people Konkani people Lists of Indians by state List of Lingayats Kannada people Recipients of the Karnataka Ratna People from Uttara Kannada District...
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  • Advanced Study in the History of Modern India 1707–1813 by Jaswant Lal Mehta p.458 "Include Balija caste in OBC list, demand Lingayats". The Hans India. July...
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    Basava purana (category Lingayat literature)
    sacred text of Lingayat. The epic poem narrates the life story of philosopher and social reformer Basava (1134–1196 CE), the founder of Lingayat . He is also...
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    Vokkaliga (category Social groups of Karnataka)
    Reddy Vokkaliga, Gounder, Tulu Gowda. etc. Lingayat converts of the various Vokkaligas are categorised as Lingayats. Exogamy at the family/clan level is strictly...
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    whom Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes account for more than 200,000; Lingayat for around 200,000; Ediga for 220,000; Banjara for 100,000; Muslim for...
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    Gulbarga Uttar Assembly constituency (category Assembly constituencies of Karnataka)
    constituency). The major communities residing in this constituency are Lingayats, Muslims, and Dalits. The constituency is known for its historical and...
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  • Pranalinga (category Lingayatism)
    experience of all as a form of god. It is a concept in Lingayatism. List of Lingayats M. R. Sakhare, History and Philosophy of the Lingayat Religion, Prasaranga...
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  • Reddy (surname) (category Lists of people by surname)
    members of the Telugu speaking Reddy caste. It is also used as a surname by members of the Reddi Lingayat and Reddy Vokkaliga communities of Karnataka...
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    it expanded to include more Lingayats (as well as some Vokkaligas). Most of the party state leadership is either Lingayat or Brahmin. By the 2000s, the...
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    K. Chengalaraya Reddy (category Members of the Constituent Assembly of India)
    2018. "History of Freedom Movement −7: The Mysore Congress". Ithihas. Community dominance and political modernisation: the Lingayats – Shankaragouda...
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    Shunyasampadane (category Lingayatism)
    anthology of poems in the Kannada language that includes the vachanas and dialogues of several Lingayat saints. It is an important part of the holy scriptures...
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    Lingam (category Forms of Shiva)
    12th-century. Lingayatism is derived from the term linga and suffix ayta. The term Lingayat is based on the practice of both genders of Lingayats wearing an...
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  • This is a list of notable people who belong to the Hindu Brahmin caste. Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar, artist M. V. Dhurandhar, Indian artist known for his...
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  • of the parent species. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also Notes References External links Animals portal List of dairy...
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  • state of Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu. This is a list of notable Kurubas. Beerappa is a God of Kuruba...
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    Siddheshwar Temple, Solapur (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
    of the Lingayat faith. There is a lake within the temple complex. The temple is dedicated to its namesake Siddheshwar, a twelfth-century devotee of Shiva...
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  • of the most famous and influential philosophers of all time were from the Indian Subcontinent such as Buddha, Nagarjuna, Adi Sankara, etc. This list is...
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    "Karnataka: BJP Putting Hindutva on Backburner Is Proof of Electoral Significance of Lingayats". The Wire. Retrieved 3 May 2023. Daniyal, Shoaib (2 May...
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  • modernisation: the Lingayats. Mittal Publications. p. 218. ISBN 978-81-7099-867-9. "List of the Institutions" (PDF). Karnataka Lingayat Education Society's...
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    the iconographic form of Ishtalinga, which the adherents wear. Large communities of Lingayats are found in the south Indian state of Karnataka and nearby...
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  • of 52,893 votes. Raghavendra is also the Managing Trustee of PES Institute of Technology and Management, Shimoga. Raghavendra belongs to the Lingayat...
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  • {{Dynamic list} While the word religion is difficult to define, one standard model of religion used in religious studies courses defines it as [a] system of symbols...
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    Basavaraj Bommai (category State cabinet ministers of Karnataka)
    extended to Vokkaligas and Lingayats under new categories of 2C and 2D. This also led to protests by various communities across parts of the states and also...
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    or government-sanctioned establishments of a religion, but the state does not need to be under the control of the clergy (as in a theocracy), nor is the...
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