Jñāneśvar (Dnyaneshwar)
1275 CE · Āpegāv (Apegaon)
c. 1275–1296 CE (traditional; a 13th-century Marathi sant)
Jñāneśvar (also Dnyāneśvar or Jñānadeva) was a short-lived but towering figure of the Marathi bhakti movement, traditionally born at Āpegāv on the Godāvarī and raised, with his remarkable siblings (Nivṛttinātha, Sopāna, Muktābāī), as the children of outcaste Brāhmaṇa parents. His masterwork, the 'Jñāneśvarī' (Bhāvārtha-dīpikā), is a verse commentary on the Bhagavad-Gītā in Marathi — one of the earliest great works of the language — which made the Gītā's non-dual and devotional teaching accessible to ordinary people and helped found the Varkari tradition centered on the god Viṭṭhala of Pandharpur. By tradition he ended his life in 1296 by entering a final meditative absorption (sañjīvana samādhi) at Āḷandī while still very young. His dates and the more miraculous episodes of his life come from the tradition; the literary achievement is securely his.
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Āpegāv (Apegaon)
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Traditional birthplace, on the banks of the Godāvarī, c. 1275.
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Āpegāv (Apegaon) is a village on the Godāvarī River in the Aurangabad (Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar) district of Maharashtra, western India. It is traditionally given as the ancestral village of Jñāneśvar (Dnyāneshwar, 13th c.), author of the Jñāneśvarī.
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