Ramananda

Also known as Swami Ramanandacharya

Jagadguru Swami Ramananda (IAST: Rāmānanda) or Ramanandacharya was an Indian 14th-century Hindu Vaishnava devotional poet saint, who lived in the Gangetic basin of northern India. The Hindu tradition recognizes him as the founder of the Ramanandi Sampradaya, the largest monastic Hindu renunciant community in modern times.

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Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit (in Accurate to Read, Word-Separated, Format
Bhagavad Gita in Hindi Poetry
BHAGAVAD-GITA Made Easy to Understand
Bhagavad-Gita for Children and Beginners
Bhagavad-Gita en Français : (le Chant de Dieu en Française)

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Hindu leader.honorific_prefix: JagadguruSwami
Hindu leader.honorific_suffix: Acharya
Hindu leader.name: Ramananda
Hindu leader.image: Ramanand.jpg
Hindu leader.religion: Hinduism
Hindu leader.birth_date: December 30, ~1300-1380 CEl
Hindu leader.birth_place: Prayagraj, Delhi Sultanate (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India)
Hindu leader.death_date: uncertain date, ~1400-1475 CE
Hindu leader.death_place: Banaras, Delhi Sultanate (present-day Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India)
Hindu leader.guru: Raghavananda
Hindu leader.sect: Ramanandi Sampradaya
Hindu leader.philosophy: Vishishtadvaita
Hindu leader.known_for: Founder of Bairagi Ramanandi Sampradaya Guru of Major Poet-saints A Pioneer of Bhakti movement in north India Social Reformer
Hindu leader.disciples: 2 poetess-sants and 10 poet-sants including Kabir, Ravidas, Pipa, Dhanna, and Surasurananda
Hindu leader.influences: Ramanuja
Hindu leader.influenced: Tulsidas, Nabha Dass, Krishnadas Payahari, Kilhadev

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Image: Stamp of India - 2002 - Colnect 158243 - Swami Ramanand.jpeg

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date of birth: 1400-00-00
date of death: 1476-00-00
Commons category: Swami Ramanandacharya
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Biography
Literary works
Philosophy
Legacy
Fourteen disciples of Ramananda
Largest ascetic community in India: Ramanandi Sampraday
Social reforms
Swami Ramanand poem
See also
Further reading
External links
References

Born in a Kanyakubja Brahmin family, Ramananda for the most part of his life lived in the holy city of Varanasi. His date of birth is December 30, while his date of death is uncertain, but historical evidence suggests he was one of the earliest saints and a pioneering figure of the Bhakti movement as it rapidly grew in North India, sometime between the 14th and mid-15th century during its Islamic rule period. Tradition asserts that Ramananda developed his philosophy and devotional themes inspired by the south Indian Vedanta philosopher Ramanuja, however, evidence also suggests that Ramananda was influenced by Nathpanthi ascetics of the Yoga school of Hindu philosophy.