Janabai

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Sant Janābāi was a

Hindu tradition in India, who was born likely in the seventh or the eighth decade of the 13th century. She died in 1350.[1]

Janabai was born in

caste system the couple belonged to the matang. After her mother died, her father took her to Pandharpur. Since her childhood, Janabai worked as a maid servant in the household of Dāmāsheti, who lived in Pandharpur and who was the father of the prominent Marathi religious poet Nāmdev.[3]
Janabai was likely a little older than Namdev, and attended to him for many years.

Pandharpur has high religious significance especially among Marathi-speaking Hindus. Janabai's employers, Damasheti and his wife, Gonāi, were very religious. Through the influence of the religious environment around her and her innate inclination, Janabai was always an ardent devotee of Lord

Vitthal. She was also a talented poet.[4] Though she never had any formal schooling, she composed many high-quality religious verses of the abhang (अभंग) form.[5][6] Some of her compositions were preserved along with those of Namdev. Authorship of about 300 abhang is traditionally attributed to Janabai.[7][8]

Along with Dnyāneshwar, Nāmdev, Eknāth, and Tukaram, Janabai has a revered place in the minds of Marathi-speaking Hindus who belong especially to the wārakari (वारकरी) sect in Maharashtra.[9][10] In accord with a tradition in India of assigning the epithet sant (संत) to persons regarded as thoroughly saintly, all of the above religious figures including Janabai are commonly attributed that epithet in Maharashtra. Thus, Janabai is routinely referred to as Sant Janabai (संत जनाबाई).She wrote many poems .

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References

  1. ^ Dalbir Bharti (2008). Women and the Law. APH Publishing. p. 18.
  2. ISBN 978-0-87395-669-7
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  3. ISBN 978-0-7914-2837-5
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  4. S2CID 144342657
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  5. ISBN 978-1-78374-102-1
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  6. ISBN 978-0-7914-2837-5
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  7. ISBN 978-3-030-76219-3
    , retrieved 2024-01-31
  8. S2CID 239676576
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  9. JSTOR 41694605
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  10. S2CID 239676576
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