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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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1910
Died
1999
Works
162

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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.

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