Eknath
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Eknath (IAST: Eka-nātha, Marathi pronunciation: [eknath]) (c. 1533 – c. 1599), was an Indian Hindu Vaishnava saint, philosopher and poet. He was a devotee of Vitthal, a Hindu deity. He is a major figure of the Warkari tradition. He is often viewed as a spiritual successor to prominent Hindu Marathi saints Dnyaneshwar and Namdev.
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- Born
- 1910
- Died
- 1999
- Works
- 162
Top works
- Meditation
- Essence of the Dhammapada
- The Upanishads
- Timeless wisdom
- The Upanishads
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- 9
- Total plays
- 21
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Key facts
- Hindu leader.name
- Eknath
- Hindu leader.image
- Eknath 2003 stamp of India.jpg
- Hindu leader.caption
- Depiction of Eknath on a 2003 stamp of India
- Hindu leader.religion
- Hinduism
- Hindu leader.father
- Suryanarayan
- Hindu leader.mother
- Rukminibai
- Hindu leader.birth_date
- c. 1533
- Hindu leader.birth_place
- Paithan, Ahmadnagar Sultanate
- Hindu leader.philosophy
- Advaita Vedanta, Vaishnavism
- Hindu leader.honors
- Sant (Saint)
- Hindu leader.literary_works
- Eknathi Bhagavata, Bhavarth Ramayan, Rukmini Swayamwar Hastamalak, Shukashtak, Swatma-Sukha, Ananda-Lahari, Chiranjeewa-Pad, Geeta-Saar and Prahlad-Vijaya
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- Eknath 2003 stamp of India.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1533-01-01
- date of death
- 1599-01-01
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Eknath (IAST: Eka-nātha, Marathi pronunciation: [eknath]) (c. 1533 – c. 1599), was an Indian Hindu Vaishnava saint, philosopher and poet. He was a devotee of Vitthal, a Hindu deity. He is a major figure of the Warkari tradition. He is often viewed as a spiritual successor to prominent Hindu Marathi saints Dnyaneshwar and Namdev.
==Biography== Historical information about his life is obscure. He is believed to have lived during the latter three-quarters of the 16th-century. He was born into a Deshastha Rigvedi Brahmin family of Vishwamitra gotra to Suryanarayan and Rukmini Bai at Paithan, a town in present-day Maharashtra. He was known to be an adherant of the Ashvalayana Sutra, a collection of Indian texts detailing domestic rituals for householders. His father held the title of Kulkarni and kept financial accounts. The ancestral family deity was Ekvira.