Ramananda
1400 CE–1470 CE · Prayāga (Allahabad/Prayagraj), or by some accounts associated with Vārāṇasī (Banaras), where he was chiefly active
c. 14th–15th century CE (traditional; dates and details disputed). Often given as c. 1400–c. 1470, but uncertain.
Rāmānanda was a north Indian Vaiṣṇava teacher and devotee of Rāma, traditionally placed in the 14th–15th centuries and associated above all with Vārāṇasī. He is regarded as a pivotal figure of the north Indian bhakti movement and as founder of the Rāmānandī ascetic order, the largest Vaiṣṇava monastic community in north India. Tradition remembers him for teaching devotion in the spoken vernacular and for welcoming disciples across caste and gender lines; later hagiography lists a celebrated circle of followers, though the historicity of these lists is debated by scholars. Comparatively little can be securely established about his life, and even the dates and the works attributed to him are uncertain. He stands in tradition as a bridge between the southern Śrī Vaiṣṇava heritage and the flowering of vernacular Rāma-devotion in the north.
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Prayāga (Allahabad/Prayagraj), or by some accounts associated with Vārāṇasī (Banaras), where he was chiefly active
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Rāmānanda (traditionally 14th–15th c.), the Vaiṣṇava teacher regarded as founder of the Rāmānandī Sampradāya, is by most Indian accounts said to have been born at Prayāga (Allahabad / Prayagraj) at the Ganges–Yamunā confluence in Uttar Pradesh. He lived for most of his life in Varanasi, where he taught a Rāma-centred devotion in the vernacular.
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