"Whatever work I've done, whatever I have though, was praise with my body and praise hidden inside my head."
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Naked Songs, p. 18
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Lalleshwari
1320 – 1392
Lalleshwari (1320–1392), locally known mostly as Lal Ded, was a Kashmiri mystic of the Kashmir Shaivism school of philosophy in the Indian subcontinent. She was one of the first poets of early modern Kashmiri language, and she developed a new style of spontaneous poetic composition known as "Vaakh" (literally, oral style). Out of her original compositions less than 300 are available today.
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