Namdev, the Glossary
Namdev (Pronunciation: naːmdeʋ), also transliterated as Nam Dayv, Namdeo, Namadeva, (traditionally) was a Marathi Vaishnava saint from Narsi, Hingoli, Maharashtra, Medieval India within the Varkari tradition of Hinduism.[1]
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74 relations: Abhang, Bahmani Sultanate, Bakhar, Bhagat, Bhaktamal, Bhakti movement, Bhima, Brahman, Calico, Caste system in India, Cattle raiding, Charlotte Vaudeville, Dadu Dayal, Deccan Plateau, Delhi Sultanate, Dnyaneshwar, Dnyaneshwari, Francesca Orsini, Ghoman, Gurdaspur, Guru Granth Sahib, Hagiography, Haridasa, Hinduism, Hingoli district, India, Kabir, Karnataka, Kirtan, Krishna, Krishna River, Kshatriya, Leela Charitra, Mahanubhava, Maharashtra, Mahipati, Marathi language, Marathi people, Marathwada, Medieval India, Melody, Monism, Mughal Empire, Narsi, Hingoli, Nondualism, Pandharpur, Pandit, Pantheism, Para Brahman, Philology, R. S. McGregor, ... Expand index (24 more) »
- Kirtan performers
- Marathi Hindu saints
- People from Hingoli district
- Sant Mat
- Warkari
Abhang
Abhanga is a form of devotional poetry sung in praise of the Hindu god Vitthal, also known as Vithoba.
Bahmani Sultanate
The Bahmani Sultanate (سلطاننشین بهمنی) was a late medieval empire that ruled the Deccan Plateau in India.
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Bakhar
Bakhar is a form of historical narrative written in Marathi prose.
Bhagat
Bhagat is a term used in the Indian subcontinent to describe religious personalities who have obtain high acclaim in their community for their services and devoutness.
Bhaktamal
Bhaktamal (भक्तमाल), written, is a poem in the Braj language that gives short biographies of more than 200 bhaktas. Namdev and Bhaktamal are bhakti movement, medieval Hindu religious leaders and Vaishnava saints.
Bhakti movement
The Bhakti movement was a significant religious movement in medieval Hinduism that sought to bring religious reforms to all strata of society by adopting the method of devotion to achieve salvation.
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Bhima
In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Bhima (भीम) is the second among the five Pandavas.
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Brahman
In Hinduism, Brahman (ब्रह्मन्; IAST: Brahman) connotes the highest universal principle, the Ultimate Reality of the universe.
Calico
Calico (in British usage since 1505) is a heavy plain-woven textile made from unbleached, and often not fully processed, cotton.
Caste system in India
The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes.
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Cattle raiding
Cattle raiding is the act of stealing live cattle, often several or many at once.
Charlotte Vaudeville
Charlotte Vaudeville (1918 — 28 April 2006) was a French Indologist, best known for her researches into the bhakti traditions and literature.
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Dadu Dayal
Sant Dadu Dayal (Devanagari: संत दादूदयाल जी,, 1544–1603) was a poet-saint religious reformer who spoke against formalism and priestcraft, and was active in Rajasthan. Namdev and Dadu Dayal are bhakti movement.
Deccan Plateau
The Deccan is a large plateau and region of the Indian subcontinent located between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats, and is loosely defined as the peninsular region between these ranges that is south of the Narmada River.
Delhi Sultanate
The Delhi Sultanate or the Sultanate of Delhi was a late medieval empire primarily based in Delhi that stretched over large parts of the Indian subcontinent, for 320 years (1206–1526).
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Dnyaneshwar
Sant Dnyaneshwar (Marathi pronunciation: d̪ɲyaːn̪eʃʋəɾ), also referred to as Dnyaneshwar, Dnyanadeva, Dnyandev or Mauli or Dnyaneshwar Vitthal Kulkarni (1275–1296), was a 13th-century Indian Marathi saint, poet, philosopher and yogi of the Nath and Varkari tradition. Namdev and Dnyaneshwar are bhakti movement, Hindu philosophers and theologians, Marathi Hindu saints, medieval Hindu religious leaders, sant Mat, Vaishnava saints and Warkari.
Dnyaneshwari
The Dnyaneshwari (ज्ञानेश्वरी) (IAST: Jñānēśvarī), also referred to as Jnanesvari, Jnaneshwari or Bhavartha Deepika, is a commentary on the Bhagavad Gita written by the Marathi saint and poet Sant Dnyaneshwar in 1290 CE. Namdev and Dnyaneshwari are Warkari.
Francesca Orsini
Francesca Orsini, FBA is an Italian scholar of South Asian literature.
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Ghoman, Gurdaspur
Ghoman or Ghuman is a village in Tehsil Sri Hargobindpur of Gurdaspur district of Punjab, India.
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Guru Granth Sahib
The Guru Granth Sahib (ਗੁਰੂ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ ਸਾਹਿਬ) is the central holy religious scripture of Sikhism, regarded by Sikhs as the final, sovereign and eternal Guru following the lineage of the ten human gurus of the religion.
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Hagiography
A hagiography is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a preacher, priest, founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions.
Haridasa
The Haridasa Bhakti Sahitya devotional movement (sampradaya) originated in Karnataka, India, after Madhvacharya, and spread to eastern states such as Bengal and Assam of medieval India.
Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Hingoli district
Hingoli district (Marathi pronunciation: ɦiŋɡoliː) is an administrative district in the state of Maharashtra in India.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
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Kabir
Kabir (8 June 1398–1518 CE) was a well-known Indian mystic poet and sant. Namdev and Kabir are bhakti movement and Vaishnava saints.
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Karnataka
Karnataka (ISO), also known colloquially as Karunāḍu, is a state in the southwestern region of India.
Kirtan
Indian harmoniums and ''tabla'' drums (a common and popular pairing), in Kenya (1960s) Kirtana (कीर्तन), also rendered as Kirtan or Keertan, is a Sanskrit word that means "narrating, reciting, telling, describing" of an idea or story, specifically in Indian religions. Namdev and Kirtan are bhakti movement.
Krishna
Krishna (Sanskrit: कृष्ण) is a major deity in Hinduism.
Krishna River
The Krishna River in the Deccan plateau is the third-longest river in India, after the Ganges and Godavari.
Kshatriya
Kshatriya (from Sanskrit, "rule, authority"; also called Rajanya) is one of the four varnas (social orders) of Hindu society and is associated with the warrior aristocracy.
Leela Charitra
Leela Charitra is a biography of Chakradhar Swami, the guru of the Mahanubhava sect, and is a sacred text of that sect.
Mahanubhava
Mahanubhava (also known as Jai Krishni Pantha) refers to Krishnaite Hindu denomination in India that was founded by Sarvadnya Shri Chakradhar Swami (or Shri Chakradhara Swami), an ascetic and philosopher who is considered as a reincarnation of Krishna by his devotees Some sources list the founders as Chakrapani (Chāngadeva Rāuḷ) and Govinda Prabhu (Gunḍama Rāuḷ) with Chakradhara as the first "apostle" and propagator of Mahanubhava Pantha. Namdev and Mahanubhava are sant Mat.
Maharashtra
Maharashtra (ISO: Mahārāṣṭra) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau.
Mahipati
Mahipati (1715 - 1790) was an 18th century Marathi language hagiographer who wrote biographies of prominent Hindu Vaishnava sants who had lived between the 13th and the 17th centuries in Maharashtra and other regions of India. Namdev and Mahipati are bhakti movement.
Marathi language
Marathi (मराठी) is an Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
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Marathi people
The Marathi people (Marathi: मराठी लोक, Marāṭhī lōk) or Marathis (Marathi: मराठी, Marāṭhī) are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are native to Maharashtra in western India.
Marathwada
Marathwada is a proposed state and geographical region of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Medieval India
Medieval India refers to a long period of post-classical history of the Indian subcontinent between the "ancient period" and "modern period".
Melody
A melody, also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.
Monism
Monism attributes oneness or singleness to a concept, such as to existence.
Mughal Empire
The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia.
Narsi, Hingoli
Narsi (Hingoli) is a village in Hingoli taluka of Hingoli district of Indian state of Maharashtra.
Nondualism
Nondualism includes a number of philosophical and spiritual traditions that emphasize the absence of fundamental duality or separation in existence.
Pandharpur
Pandharpur (Pronunciation: pəɳɖʱəɾpuːɾ) is a Popular pilgrimage town, on the banks of Chandrabhagā River, near Solapur city in Solapur District, Maharashtra, India.
Pandit
A Pandit (paṇḍita; पंडित; also spelled Pundit, pronounced; abbreviated Pt.) is an individual with specialised knowledge or a teacher of any field of knowledge whether it is shashtra (Holy Books) or shastra (Weapons) in Hinduism, particularly the Vedic scriptures, dharma, or Hindu philosophy; in colonial-era literature, the term generally refers to lawyers specialized in Hindu law.
Pantheism
Pantheism is the philosophical and religious belief that reality, the universe, and nature are identical to divinity or a supreme entity.
Para Brahman
Para Brahman or Param Brahman (translit-std) in Hindu philosophy is the "Supreme Brahman" that which is beyond all descriptions and conceptualisations.
Philology
Philology is the study of language in oral and written historical sources.
R. S. McGregor
Ronald Stuart McGregor, commonly R. S. McGregor or Stuart McGregor (24 October 1929 – 19 August 2013), was a philologist of the Hindi language.
Rajasthan
Rajasthan (lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northwestern India.
Rama
Rama is a major deity in Hinduism.
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Ramayana
The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata.
Ravidas
Ravidas or Raidas (1267–1335) was an Indian mystic poet-saint of the Bhakti movement during the 15th to 16th century CE. Namdev and Ravidas are medieval Hindu religious leaders and Vaishnava saints.
Saguna brahman
Saguna brahman ('The Absolute with qualities'; from Sanskrit 'with qualities', guna 'quality', and Brahman 'the Absolute') is a concept of ultimate reality in Hinduism, close to the concept of immanence, the manifested divine presence.
Saint
In Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God.
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Sannyasa
Sannyasa (Sanskrit: संन्यास; IAST), sometimes spelled Sanyasa or Sanyasi (for the person), is life of renunciation and the fourth stage within the Hindu system of four life stages known as Ashramas, with the first three being Brahmacharya (on the path of Brahma), Grihastha (householder) and Vanaprastha (forest dweller, retired).
Sant (religion)
A sant (सन्त्; IAST) is a human being revered as a "truth-exemplar" for their abnormal level of "self, truth, reality" in Indic religions, particularly Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, and Buddhism.
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Seuna (Yadava) dynasty
The Seuna, Sevuna, or Yadavas of Devagiri (IAST: Seuṇa, –1317) was a medieval Indian dynasty, which at its peak ruled a realm stretching from the Narmada river in the north to the Tungabhadra river in the south, in the western part of the Deccan region.
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Sheldon Pollock
Sheldon I. Pollock (born 1948) is an American scholar of Sanskrit, the intellectual and literary history of India, and comparative intellectual history.
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Shimpi
Shimpi is an umbrella term for the Indian caste traditionally involved in the business of clothing and tailoring.
Shiva
Shiva (lit), also known as Mahadeva (Category:Trimurti Category:Wisdom gods Category:Time and fate gods Category:Indian yogis.
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Sikhs
Sikhs (singular Sikh: or; sikkh) are an ethnoreligious group who adhere to Sikhism, a religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak.
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Textual criticism
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts (mss) or of printed books.
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Tukaram
Sant Tukaram Maharaj (Marathi pronunciation: t̪ukaːɾam), also known as Tuka, Tukobaraya, Tukoba, was a Hindu, Marathi Saint of Varkari sampradaya" in Dehu village, Maharashtra in the 17th century. Namdev and Tukaram are Marathi Hindu saints, sant Mat, Vaishnava saints and Warkari.
Untouchability
Untouchability is a form of social institution that legitimises and enforces practices that are discriminatory, humiliating, exclusionary and exploitative against people belonging to certain social groups.
Vaishnavism
Vaishnavism (translit-std) is one of the major Hindu denominations along with Shaivism, Shaktism, and Smartism. Namdev and Vaishnavism are bhakti movement.
Varna (Hinduism)
Varṇa (वर्ण), in the context of Hinduism, refers to a social class within a hierarchical traditional Hindu society.
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Vedas
The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India.
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Vijayanagara Empire
The Vijayanagara Empire was a late medieval Hindu empire that ruled much of southern India.
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Vishnu
Vishnu, also known as Narayana and Hari, is one of the principal deities of Hinduism.
Vithoba
Vithoba (IAST: Viṭhobā), also known as Vitthala (IAST: Viṭṭhala), and Panduranga (IAST: Pāṇḍuraṅga), is a Hindu deity predominantly worshipped in the Indian state of Maharashtra and Karnataka. Namdev and Vithoba are Warkari.
Warkari
Warkari (Marathi: वारकरी; Pronunciation:; Meaning: 'The one who performs the ''Wari''') is a sampradaya (religious movement) within the bhakti spiritual tradition of Hinduism, geographically associated with the Indian state of Maharashtra. Namdev and Warkari are sant Mat.
Yogi
A yogi is a practitioner of Yoga, including a sannyasin or practitioner of meditation in Indian religions.
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See also
Kirtan performers
- Alice Coltrane
- Annamacharya
- Bhagavan Das (yogi)
- Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
- Gaura Vani & As Kindred Spirits
- Haridasa Thakur
- Jahnava Devi
- Jahnavi Harrison
- Jai Uttal
- Jim Gelcer
- Jiva Goswami
- Jyoshna
- Krishna Das (singer)
- Manika Kaur
- Mantra-Rock Dance
- Mukunda Goswami
- Namdev
- Nils Einar Vinjor
- Nityananda
- Prabhu Jagadbandhu
- Sarangapani
- Shrivatsa Goswami
- Snatam Kaur
- Sukumari Dutta
- Uddharan Dutta Thakura
- Umasashi
- Wah! (band)
Marathi Hindu saints
- Bahinabai
- Bhausaheb Maharaj
- Chokhamela
- Damaji
- Dnyaneshwar
- Eknath
- Gadge Maharaj
- Ganapatrao Maharaj Kannur
- Gondavalekar Maharaj
- Gulabrao Maharaj
- Janabai
- Jog Maharaj
- Kaadsiddheshwar
- Kanhopatra
- Morya Gosavi
- Muktabai
- Namdev
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
- Nivruttinath
- Panth Maharaj
- Ramchandra Dattatreya Ranade
- Ranjit Maharaj
- Revan Nath
- Samarth Ramdas
- Shreedhar Swami
- Shridhar Swami Nazarekar
- Sopan
- Tukaram
People from Hingoli district
- Chandrakant Ramkrishna Patil
- F. M. Shinde
- Jaiprakash Shankarlal Mundada
- Namdev
- Nanaji Deshmukh
- Narhar Ambadas Kurundkar
- Panditrao Ramrao Deshmukh
- Rajeev Satav
- Santosh Kautika Tarfe
- Subhash Bapurao Wankhede
- Suryakanta Patil
- Tanaji Sakharamji Mutkule
- Tukamai
- Vilasrao Gundewar
Sant Mat
- Advait Mat
- Baba Faqir Chand
- Bhagat Munshi Ram
- Bhumman Shah
- Dayalbagh
- Devi Sahab
- Dnyaneshwar
- Ekasarana Dharma
- Eknath
- Gondavalekar Maharaj
- Julian Johnson
- Kabir panth
- List of Hindu gurus and sants
- Mahanubhava
- Namdev
- Nanakpanthi
- Ramananda
- Ramdasia
- Ravidassia
- Sant Mat
- Satlok
- Shabda
- Simran
- Surat Shabd Yoga
- Surdas
- Tukaram
- Tulsidas
- Warkari
Warkari
- Amrutanubhav
- Bahinabai
- Bhanudasa
- Changdev Maharaj
- Chokhamela
- Damaji
- Dnyaneshwar
- Dnyaneshwari
- Eknath
- Eknathi Bhagwat
- Gora Kumbhar
- Haripath
- Janabai
- Janardan Swami
- Kanhopatra
- Karmamela
- Muktabai
- Namdev
- Narahari Sonar
- Nivruttinath
- Ovi (poetry)
- Pandharpur Wari
- Pundalik
- Sant Banka
- Sant Nirmala
- Sant Soyarabai
- Savata Mali
- Sena Nhavi
- Shayani Ekadashi
- Sopan
- Tukaram
- Visoba Khechara
- Vithoba
- Vithoba Temple
- Warkari
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namdev
Also known as Bhagat Namdev, Naam Dev, Nam Dev, Namadeva, Namdeo, Namdeva, Sant Namdev.
, Rajasthan, Rama, Ramayana, Ravidas, Saguna brahman, Saint, Sannyasa, Sant (religion), Seuna (Yadava) dynasty, Sheldon Pollock, Shimpi, Shiva, Sikhs, Textual criticism, Tukaram, Untouchability, Vaishnavism, Varna (Hinduism), Vedas, Vijayanagara Empire, Vishnu, Vithoba, Warkari, Yogi.