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The Bhagavad Gita (/ ˈ b ʌ ɡ ə v ə d ˈ ɡ iː t ɑː /; [1] Sanskrit: भगवद्गीता, IPA: [ˌbʱɐɡɐʋɐd ˈɡiːtɑː], romanized: bhagavad-gītā, lit. 'God's song'), [a] often referred to as the Gita (IAST: gītā), is a Hindu scripture, dated to the second or first century BCE, [7] which forms part of the epic Mahabharata.
Bhaktamal (Hindi: भक्तमाल, IAST: Bhaktamāla), written c. 1585, is a poem in the Braj language that gives short biographies of more than 200 bhaktas. It was written by Nabha Dass , a saint belonging to the tradition of Ramananda .
Rambhadracharya is a scholar of 14 languages and can speak 22 languages in total, [17] [18] [23] including Sanskrit, Hindi, English, French, Bhojpuri, Maithili, Oriya, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi, Magadhi, Awadhi, and Braj. [14] He has composed poems and literary works in many Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, and Awadhi.
He is revered in the Sikh scripture, and 41 of Ravidas' poems are included in the Adi Granth. These poems are one of the oldest attested source of his ideas and literary works. [1] [2] Another substantial source of legends and stories about the life of Ravidas is the hagiography in the Sikh tradition, the Premambodha. [13]
Surdas's poetry was written in a dialect of Hindi called Braj Bhasha, until then considered to be a very plebeian language, as the prevalent literary languages were either Persian or Sanskrit. His work raised the status of the Braj Bhasha from a crude language to that of a literary one.
Narsinh Mehta was born in Gopnath village near the town of Talaja (now located in the Bhavnagar district, Gujarat).As a member of the Nagar Brahmin community, Narsinh's father held an administrative position in a royal court.
Mahadevi Verma (26 March 1907 – 11 September 1987) was an Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist, sketch story writer and an eminent personality of Hindi literature. She is considered one of the four major pillars [a] of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature. [1]
Thakurdwara Bhagwan Narainji (popularly known as Pandori Dham [note 1] [1] [2]) is a historical Hindu temple belonging to Ramanandi Sampradaya, [3] located in the village Pandori Mahantan [4] in Gurdaspur district of Punjab in India. It constitutes one of the fifty-two Vaishnav dvaras of Indian subcontinent into which Bairagis have been ...