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This is a list of religious people in Hinduism, including gurus, sants, monks, yogis and spiritual masters.. A guru is defined as a "teacher, spiritual guide, [or] godman," [1] by author David Smith.
Hindu saints have often renounced the world, and are variously called gurus, sadhus, rishis, swamis, muni, yogis, yoginis and other names. [ 1 ] Many people conflate the terms "saint" and " sant ", because of their similar meanings.
A missionary priest in France, Indian by birth. 8 August: Petroc: c. 468 Wales: c. 564 Cornwall, England: A British abbot who lived in India where he tamed wolves and returned to Britain with a wolf companion he had met in India. 4 June
Shudra Hindu saints (7 P) T. Tamil Hindu saints (1 C, 35 P) Pages in category "Indian Hindu saints" The following 110 pages are in this category, out of 110 total.
The Alvars were influential in promoting the Bhagavata cult and the two Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. [12] The religious works of these saints in Tamil, and their hymns, are compiled as the Naalayira Divya Prabandham, containing 4000 verses, and the 108 temples revered in their hymns are classified as Divya Desams.
Dalit is an ancient designation for a group of indigenous Indian people. Several influential Hindu saints, though, were members of this group. [1] [2] Though there has also many historical Vedic period saints, whose descendants are now considered as Dalits. [3]
Tamil Hindu saints (1 C, 35 P) V. Vaishnava saints (1 C, 78 P) Pages in category "Hindu saints" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
[7] [8] Among the most popular of his works, the Kalyan Mandir Stotra is a Sanskrit hymn dedicated to the 23rd Tirthankara Parshvanatha. Hemachandra ,a 12th century ( c. 1088 – c. 1172/1173 CE ) Indian Jain saint,One of the prominent authors of Jain Scriptures ,scholar, poet, mathematician, philosopher , yogi , grammarian , [ 9 ] law theorist ...