Mind-Benders of Hindu History
He wrote a spiritual classic as a teenager — and was gone by 21
Around 1290, a boy of about sixteen named Jñāneśvar (Dnyaneshwar) composed the Jñāneśvarī, a sweeping ~9,000-verse Marathi commentary on the Bhagavad Gita that became a foundational work of the Marathi language and is still recited today. By tradition he was born in 1275 and entered his final samadhi at Alandi in 1296, at about the age of twenty-one.
How we know
Jñāneśvar (Dnyaneshwar): traditional dates c.1275–1296 CE. His Jñāneśvarī, a ~9,000-verse Marathi commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, was composed in 1290 (the undisputed date), when he was about sixteen. He entered his final samadhi at Alandi in 1296, at about twenty-one.
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