Surdas

Sūrdās was a 16th-century poet-saint of the Braj region around Mathurā and Vṛndāvana, revered as the greatest devotional poet of Kṛṣṇa in Braj-bhāṣā. Tradition holds that he was blind, and his songs — vivid evocations of the child Kṛṣṇa's pranks, play, and love — are gathered in the great anthology known as the Sūrsāgar ("Ocean of Sūr"), though only a portion of the received corpus is securely his. He is traditionally counted among the Aṣṭachāp, the eight poets of the Puṣṭimārga (the Vallabha Sampradāya), and is often said to have been a disciple of Vallabhācārya, though scholars debate the historicity of this connection. His exact dates are uncertain; the widely cited span of c. 1478–1583 is conventional. He remains one of the most beloved figures of north Indian devotional poetry.