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{{Infobox person                  | name        = Maate Mahadevi            | birth_date  = {{birth date|df=y|1946|3|13}}                  | birth_place = Sasalahatti, <br/>[[Chitradurga]]                  | death_date  = {{death date and age|2019|3|14|1946|3|13|df=yes}}                  | death_place = [[Bangalore]]      | education  =  [[Bachelor of Science|B. Sc]]<br/>[[Master of Arts|M. A]]                        | nationality = [[India]]n                                    | parents    = Basappa<br/>(father)<br/>Gangamma <br/>(mother) }}                          '''[[Doctor (title)|Dr]] Poojya Maate Mahadevi''' [[Master of Arts|M A]] [[Bachelor of Science|B. Sc]](13 March 1946 – 14 March 2019<ref>https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/150319/lingayat-seer-jagadguru-mate-mahadevi-is-dead.html</ref>) was an [[India]]n [[wikt:spiritual|Spiritual]] leader,  scholar, mystic, writer and first female ''Jagadguru'',  spiritual head of the Indian [[Lingayat]] community.<ref>{{cite book |author=Werner, Karel |title=The Yogi and the mystic: studies in Indian and comparative mysticism |publisher=Curzon |location=Surrey |year=1989 |isbn=0-7007-0272-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p7J-Gy7PSSEC&q=Mate+Mahadevi}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|date=July–December 2009|title=The Contemporary Hindu Women of India: An Overview|journal=South Asian Studies: A Research Journal of South Asian Studies|volume=24|issue=2|pages=242–249|url=http://pu.edu.pk/csas/journal/PDF/5-Dr.%20Tahira.pdf|author=Tahira Basharat}}</ref>
{{Infobox person                  | name        = Maate Mahadevi            | birth_date  = {{birth date|df=y|1946|3|13}}                  | birth_place = Sasalahatti, <br/>[[Chitradurga]]                  | death_date  = {{death date and age|2019|3|14|1946|3|13|df=yes}}                  | death_place = [[Bangalore]]      | education  =  [[Bachelor of Science|B. Sc.]]<br/>[[Master of Arts|M. A.]]                        | nationality = [[India]]n                                    | parents    = Basappa<br/>(father)<br/>Gangamma <br/>(mother) }}                          '''[[Doctor (title)|Dr]] Poojya Maate Mahadevi''' [[Master of Arts|M. A.]] [[Bachelor of Science|B. Sc.]](13 March 1946 – 14 March 2019<ref>https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/150319/lingayat-seer-jagadguru-mate-mahadevi-is-dead.html</ref>) was an [[India]]n [[wikt:spiritual|Spiritual]] leader,  scholar, mystic, writer and first female ''Jagadguru'',  spiritual head of the Indian [[Lingayat]] community.<ref>{{cite book |author=Werner, Karel |title=The Yogi and the mystic: studies in Indian and comparative mysticism |publisher=Curzon |location=Surrey |year=1989 |isbn=0-7007-0272-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p7J-Gy7PSSEC&q=Mate+Mahadevi}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|date=July–December 2009|title=The Contemporary Hindu Women of India: An Overview|journal=South Asian Studies: A Research Journal of South Asian Studies|volume=24|issue=2|pages=242–249|url=http://pu.edu.pk/csas/journal/PDF/5-Dr.%20Tahira.pdf|author=Tahira Basharat}}</ref>


== Early life ==
== Early life ==
Following initiation in 1965 by Lingananda Swami, Maate Mahadevi began writing ''[[vachanas]]'', a form of didactic poetry. In 1966 she received her [[Jangama]] initiation as an [[ascetic]] in the Lingayat order of wandering mendicants. In 1970 she was installed as a ''jagadguru'' in the Lingayat community, the first time a woman had been placed in that position. She holds the 12th century woman poet [[Akka Mahadevi]], who also wrote ''vachanas'', as her role model.<ref name="Sharma">{{cite book |author=Sharma, Arvind| author2=Young, Katherine K. |title=Feminism and World Religions |publisher=SUNY Press |location=New York |year=1999 |pages=45–46 |isbn=0-7914-4024-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fkay_WoTdHcC}}</ref><ref>[http://www.lingayathism.net/html/modules/cjaycontent/index.php?id=83 Lingayathism website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100809153539/http://www.lingayathism.net/html/modules/cjaycontent/index.php?id=83 |date=2010-08-09 }}</ref>
Following initiation in 1965 by Lingananda Swami, Maate Mahadevi began writing ''[[vachanas]]'', a form of didactic poetry. In 1966 she received her [[Jangama]] initiation as an [[ascetic]] in the Lingayat order of wandering mendicants. In 1970 she was installed as a ''jagadguru'' in the Lingayat community, the first time a woman had been placed in that position. She held the 12th century woman poet [[Akka Mahadevi]], who also wrote ''vachanas'', as her role model.<ref name="Sharma">{{cite book |author=Sharma, Arvind| author2=Young, Katherine K. |title=Feminism and World Religions |publisher=SUNY Press |location=New York |year=1999 |pages=45–46 |isbn=0-7914-4024-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fkay_WoTdHcC}}</ref><ref>[http://www.lingayathism.net/html/modules/cjaycontent/index.php?id=83 Lingayathism website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100809153539/http://www.lingayathism.net/html/modules/cjaycontent/index.php?id=83 |date=2010-08-09 }}</ref>


By 1983 she had published twenty books and started an educational and religious institution called Jaganmata Akka Mahadevi Ashrama in [[Dharwad]], [[Karnataka]], whose focus is education and spiritual upliftment of girls and women. Among her many books is ''Basava Tatva Darshana'', on the life and teachings of [[Basava]], a 12th-century social reformer and philosopher who fought against the caste system.<ref name="Sharma" />
By 1983 she had published twenty books and started an educational and religious institution called Jaganmata Akka Mahadevi Ashrama in [[Dharwad]], [[Karnataka]], whose focus is education and spiritual upliftment of girls and women. Among her many books is ''Basava Tatva Darshana'', on the life and teachings of [[Basava]], a 12th-century social reformer and philosopher who fought against the caste system.<ref name="Sharma" />
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