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Namdev

Namdev

1270 CE · Narsi Bahmani (traditional)

c. 1270–1350 CE (traditional; a Varkari sant of the 13th–14th c.)

Namdev (Nāmadeva) was a Marathi bhakti saint of the Varkari tradition, traditionally a tailor or calico-printer by caste, devoted to the god Viṭṭhala (Viṭhobā) of Pandharpur. His abhaṅgas — short, fervent devotional songs in Marathi — remain central to the Varkari pilgrimage tradition, and he is associated with Jñāneśvar and the other early Maharashtrian sants. A body of devotional verse attributed to him in Hindi also circulated in the north, and a number of his compositions were incorporated into the Sikh Gurū Granth Sāhib, where he is honored as Bhagat Nāmdev. His traditional dates are c. 1270–1350; details of his life and travels (including a northern sojourn in the Punjab) come from devotional tradition and are uncertain.

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Narsi Bahmani (traditional)

What they did here

Traditional birthplace, c. 1270 (other sites are also claimed); his caste tradition is that of a tailor/calico-printer.

About Narsi Bahmani (traditional)

Narsi Bahmani is a village in the Nanded district of Maharashtra, western India. It is, by one tradition, given as the birthplace of the sant-poet Nāmdev (13th–14th c.), a leading voice of the Marathi Vārkarī movement (other accounts place his birth elsewhere).

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In the same place & time

Sages whose lives overlapped with Namdev’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.

In the same tradition

Jñāneśvar (Dnyaneshwar)

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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Namdev’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.

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