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eknath wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 biography 2 literary contribution 3 festival 4 see also 5 references 6 external links toggle the table of contents eknath 18 languages অসমীয়া বাংলা deutsch गोंयची कोंकणी gõychi konknni ગુજરાતી हिन्दी bahasa indonesia ಕನ್ನಡ मराठी ਪੰਜਾਬੀ پنجابی русский संस्कृतम् தமிழ் తెలుగు ไทย татарча tatarça اردو edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikiquote wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia indian hindu saint philosopher and poet 1533 1600 this article is about the 16th century spiritual figure for the 20th century spiritual teacher see eknath easwaran eknath depiction of eknath on a 2003 stamp of india personal life born c 1533 paithan ahmadnagar sultanate died 25 february 1600 1600 02 25 aged 66 67 parents suryanarayan father rukminibai mother notable work s eknathi bhagavata bhavarth ramayan rukmini swayamwar hastamalak shukashtak swatma sukha ananda lahari chiranjeewa pad geeta saar and prahlad vijaya honors sant saint religious life religion hinduism philosophy advaita vedanta vaishnavism eknath iast eka nātha marathi pronunciation eknath c 1533 25 february 1600 1 2 pronunciation ⓘ was an indian hindu vaishnava saint philosopher and poet he was a devotee of vitthal a hindu deity he is a major figure of the warkari tradition he is often viewed as a spiritual successor to prominent hindu marathi saints dnyaneshwar and namdev biography edit historical information about his life is obscure he is believed to have lived during the latter three quarters of the 16th century he was born into a deshastha rigvedi brahmin family of vishwamitra gotra to suryanarayan and rukmini bai at paithan a town in present day maharashtra he was known to be an adherant of the ashvalayana sutra a collection of indian texts detailing domestic rituals for householders his father held the title of kulkarni and kept financial accounts the ancestral family deity was ekvira 2 his parents died while eknath was young he was then raised by his grandfather chakrapani his great grandfather bhanudas was another revered saint of the warkari sect 3 4 eknath was a disciple of janardan swami 5 who was a devotee of the hindu deity dattatreya a samadhi or shrine venerating eknath is located at paithan near the godavari river celebrations commemorating eknath are held every year around the month of march in paithan 6 literary contribution edit eknath s writings include a variation of the hindu religious text bhagavata purana known as eknathi bhagavata 7 he also wrote a variation of the hindu epic ramayana also known as bhavarth ramayan he also composed rukmini swayamwar hastamalak a literary piece consisting of 764 owee poetic metre it is based on a sanskrit hymn of the same name he also made attempts to shift the emphasis of marathi literature from a spiritual to a narrative style of composition to assert the significance of the marathi language he once claimed the following 8 if sanskrit was made by god was prakrit born of thieves and knaves let these errings be of vanity alone god is no partisan of tongues to him prakrit and sanskrit are alike my language marathi is worthy of expressing the highest sentiments and is rich laden with the fruits of divine knowledge his other literary works include shukashtak 447 owee sukha 510 owee ananda lahari 154 owee chiranjeewa pad 42 owee geeta saar and prahlad vijaya he introduced a new form of devotional melodies called bharood and wrote nearly 300 of them 7 he authored a short work known as hindu turk samvad that depicts a sixteenth century conversation between a hindu and a muslim 9 festival edit eknath sashti is a festival held on the day on which the eknath left his body in the river godavari and took jala samadhi at paithan 10 the day occurs every year in falgun a marathi month usually occurring in march or april 11 12 see also edit vasudeva bhagavatism references edit citations history of dharmaśāstra pdf retrieved 7 april 2026 the date of his death is śake 1521 phalguna dark half 6th day 25 february 1600 1 2 ganesh vasudeo tagare 1994 eknath sahitya akademi p 4 isbn 9788172014568 eknath a biographical sketch a d 1533 1599 a reference to the marathi vangmaya kosh a biographical dictionary of marathi writers shows that there were three authors called eknath and seven authors who used the mudrika pen name eka janardan used by our author eknath eknath was a rigvedi deshastha brahmin a follower of the ashvalayana sutra his gotra was vishvamitra his family deity was ekaveera devi or renuka his family lived at paithan novetzke 2013 pp 141 142 schomer mcleo 1987 p 94 coming soon page archived from the original on 7 july 2020 retrieved 7 july 2020 george michell 1 may 2013 southern india a guide to monuments sites museums roli books private limited p 115 isbn 978 81 7436 903 1 1 2 keune jon milton 2011 eknāth remembered and reformed bhakti brahmans and untouchables in marathi historiography thesis new york ny usa columbia university press p 32 doi 10 7916 d8cn79vk hdl 10022 ac p 11409 retrieved 9 march 2016 chandra satish 2018 history of medieval india isbn 978 93 5287 457 6 zellior eleanor a medieval encounter between hindu and muslim eknath s drama poem hindu turk samvad india s islamic traditions 711 1750 narayanan renuka 19 november 2023 eknath s journey of loss and learning the new indian express retrieved 24 january 2025 march 2018 marathi calendar panchang archived from the original on 11 april 2019 retrieved 5 october 2017 sri eknath swami above caste creed the times of india 15 march 2001 issn 0971 8257 retrieved 24 january 2025 bibliography novetzke christian lee 2013 religion and public memory a cultural history of saint namdev in india columbia university press isbn 9780231512565 schomer karine mcleo w h 1987 the sants studies in a devotional tradition of india motilal banarsidass isbn 9788120802773 external links edit sant eknath maharaj information in marathi wikimedia commons has media related to eknath eknath a translation from bhaktalilamrita by justin e abbott 1927 at archive org shri eknathi bhagwat marathi at archive org authority control databases artists musicbrainz retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title eknath oldid 1375091641 categories marathi language poets varkari 16th century hindu philosophers and 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