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	Dnyaneshwar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sant Dnyaneshwar (1275-1296) (ज्ञानेश्वर in Marathi) (also known as Jnanadeva - ज्ञानदेव or Jnaneshvar - ज्ञानेश्वर) was a 13th century rebel saint-poet in Maharashtra, west India.
		Sant Dnyaneswar was born in a Deshastha Yajurvedi Brahmin family to Vitthal Pant Kulkarni and Rukmini Bai, at Apegaon in the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, India.
		Nivrutti Nath: Elder brother of dnyaneshwar, Nivrutti Nath was an authority in nath sect.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sant_Dnyaneshwar (634 words)

	SPECIAL FEATURE
		Sant Tulsidas (1532-1603) was one of the Lop poet saints from Uttar Pradesh.
		Sant Soordas was born in 1430 in the neighbourhood of the famous holy city of Mathura.
		Sant Dnyaneshwar (1275-1296) is the pioneer of the Bhakti movement.
	www.studio-systems.com /Playback&Fastforward/PlayBack/1987/October/33oct.htm (1021 words)

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		Sant DnyÄneshwar / Sant JÃ±Äneshwar (1275-1296) (à¤à¥à¤à¤¾à¤¨à¥à¤¶à¥à¤µà¤° in Marathi) (also known as JÃ±anadeva - à¤à¥à¤à¤¾à¤¨à¤¦à¥à¤µ) was a 13th century saint-poet born in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra state, west India.
		Sant Dnyaneshwar wrote Dnyaneshwari in Newasa town of Ahmednagar district.
		Sant Dnyaneswar was born to Vitthal Pant Kulkarni and Rukmini Bai, at Apegaon in the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, India.
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		Saint Dnyaneshwar, after translating the Bhagavad Gita into Marathi attained Samadhi in a cave at Alandi.
		The town of Dehu, where the samadhi of Sant Tukaram is located, lies not far from Alandi.
		This stanza is to be found in Saint Dnyaneshwar's book about the power of chanting Hari's name.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Alandi (400 words)

	ShivShahi on the Web
		Thus in the end a tribe - or collection of tribes or castes - was fused into a nation, and by the end of the 18th century a Maratha people in the political and cultural senses of the term had been formed, though caste distinctions still remained.
		Dnyaneshwar went among the people and taught them to have faith in God.
		Dnyaneshwar's words are hear in every nook and corner of Maharashtra for the past seven hundred years.
	members.tripod.com /~Shivshahi/saints.html (1484 words)

	Dnyaneshwar's Gita Has Popular AppealSpirituality - Indiatimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Dnyaneshwari is a critical discourse on the Bhagavad Gita by Sant Dnyaneshwar.
		Sant Dnyaneshwar realised that the Gita's teachings could be read and understood only by a small Sanskrit-knowing elite.
		So Sant Dnyaneshwar brought the teachings of the Gita within reach of the common man. Dnyaneshwari was composed around the twelfth century, when Dnyaneshwar was only 16 years old.
	spirituality.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-626903,prtpage-1.cms (603 words)

	Welcome to Sanathanadharma.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		SANT EKNATH is like a bridge between his predecessors Dnyaneshwar and Naamdev and successors Tukaram and Ramdas.
		Sant Bhanudas, who brought back the sacred image of Lord Pandurang, from Vijaynagar to Pandharpur, was Eknath’s great grandfather.
		Eknath was born under the star sign of ‘Mula’ in sagittarius constellation, traditionally considered a bad omen for the parents of the child.
	www.sanathanadharma.com /articles/eknath.htm (550 words)

	music of the masses
		Sant Dnyaneshwar wrote "Dnyaneshwari" —; a commentary on Srimad Bhagvat Geeta in Prakrit (Marathi) a Language, which could be understood by the masses.
		Both Sant Dnyaneshwar and Sant Namdev through their works, devotion and bhakti could initiate a Sampradaya, which did not attach importance to caste or creed but only devotion to the Lord.
		Thus, was born the Namsankirtana cult and Varkari Sampradaya.
	www.chembur.com /gk-music (1136 words)

	Chembur.com
		Sant Dnyaneshwar wrote "Dnyaneshwari", a commentary on Srimad Bhagvat Geeta in Prakrit (Marathi) a language, which could be understood by the masses.
		Both Sant Dnyaneshwar and Sant Namdev through their works, devotion and bhakta could initiate a sampradaya, which did not attach importance to caste or creed but only devotion to the Lord.
		Thus, was born the Namsankirtana cult and Varkari Sampradaya, a tradition of chorus singing swayed the masses into enchanted bhakta.
	www.chembur.com /gk/fasnam.htm (402 words)

	Alandi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saint Dnyaneshwar (Jnaneshwar), after translating the Bhagavad Gita into Marathi attained Samadhi in a cave at Alandi.
		A temple complex has been built near the spot of Sant Dnyaneshwar's samadhi.
		The town of Dehu, where the samadhi of Sant Tukaram is located, lies not far from Alandi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alandi (272 words)

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		Non-stop chants of "Gyanba-Tukaram", "Gyanba-Tukaram" (Sant Dnyaneshwar and Sant Tukaram, patron saints of Alandi and Dehu respectively) is on the lips of every single warkari, who sings and dances his/her way to the temple town of Pandharpur in southern Maharashtra for a glimpse of Vithoba and his consort Rukmai.
		To Chitre, it was Narayan Maharaj, youngest son of Sant Tukaram, who started the tradition of the palkhi in the latter half of the 17th Century in Dehu near Pune.
		The Dnyaneshwar palkhi was supported by the Shindes of Gwalior, while the Tukaram palkhi was supported financially by the warrior clans of the Dabhades, the Ingles and the Angres of Maharashtra.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2005073100130200.htm&date=2005/07/31/&prd=mag& (1555 words)

	More info about the poet: Sant Tukaram - references bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sant Tukaram (???????), respectfully referred to as Shri Tukaram, and colloquially referred to as "Tuka" (????) was a seventeenth century Marathi...
		aadi beech ek re, VG Bhatkar, VG Bhatkar, Narendra Sharma · Sant Tukaram · bana sakte ho jb duniyaab to bata...
		Sant Tukaram Tukaram was a poet saint with a very great stature in the Bhakti movement of Maharashtra, so much so that in the popular mind he is the very...
	www.poemhunter.com /sant-tukaram/resources/poet-36373/page-1 (739 words)

	Palkhi Festival Maharasthtra,Palkhi Festival,Maharashtra Palkhi Festival
		In the year 1685, Narayan baba, the youngest son of Tukaram was a man of innovative spirit and decided to bring about a change in the dindi-wari tradition by introducing the Palkhi, which is a sign of social respect.
		He put the silver padukas (footsteps) of Tukaram in the Palkhi and proceeded with his dindi to Alandi where he put the padukas of Dnyaneshwar in the same Palkhi.
		A total of approximately 1.5 lakh devotees proceed along with the Sant Tukaram Palkhi from Dehu village, while a total of 2.25 lakh devotees march along with the Sant Dnyaneshwar Palkhi.
	www.indiantravelportal.com /maharashtra/festivals/palkhi-festival.html (343 words)

	saints-views (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sant Dnyaneshwar Maharaj said that, the saint who is Jeevan Mukta (having renounced the world), is himself a law or a vidhi.
		The meaning of the words of Sant Dnyaneshwara are very clean. All the three above a, b and c bindings are exempted in case of Jeevan Mukta.. The jeevan Mukta sthiti (living) pertains very much to his mental conditions.
		He is neither sane (in worldly matters) nor insane. This may be the reason why, Sant Dnyaneshwar Maharj has said that ' vidhi ' is not applicable to him against his desire or ' Vidhi " does not remain vidhi to govern a person who crosses over to "Dnyani" stage of mind.
	www.sugway.com /saints-views.html (2964 words)

	Star
		Although there are not many written records of the tradition, historians credit Narayan Maharaj, Sant (saint) Tukaram’s youngest son, with pioneering the tradition in 1685.
		Folklore goes that Narayan Maharaj proceeded with Tukaram’s palkhi from Dehu to Alandi, where he placed Sant Dnyaneshwar’s padukas in the same palanquin and proceeded to Pandharpur.
		The saints themselves, in fact, belonged to different castes—the Brahmin Dnyaneshwar; the grocer Tukaram; the gardener Sawata; and the potter Gora Kumbhar are examples.
	www.star.com.jo /viewNews/DetailNews.aspx?nid=1150 (1891 words)

	The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The citation hailing Sant Tukaram as one of the three best films of 1937 at Venice was gathering dust in a trash bin in Pune's Film and Television Institute of India.
		Long believed to be lost, it was recently handed over to the National Film Archives by cinematographer Sunny Joseph, who had found the green-colour document with ornate calligraphy in a dustbin at the institute during his student days in 1979.
		Sant Tukaram was the second of Prabhat company's trilogy on the saint-poets of Maharashtra, the other two being Dharmatma in 1935 on Eknath, by Bal Gandharva and Shantaram, and Sant Dnyaneshwar (1940) by the directors of Tukaram, which was released on December 12, 1936, at Mumbai's Central Cinema.
	www.the-week.com /24apr18/statescan_article1.htm (464 words)

	Welcome to Sanathanadharma.com
		Dnyaneswari is a critical discourse on bhagavath Gita by Sant Dyaneshwar.
		Sant Dyaneshwar realized that the Gitas teaching could be read only by a small Sanskrit-knowing elite.
		So Sant Dyaneshwar brought teaching of the Gita within reach of the common man. Dyaneshwari was composed around the twelfth century, when Dyaneshwar was only 16years old.
	www.sanathanadharma.com /articles/appeal.htm (511 words)

	Alandi
		But Alandi is the place famous for his Samadhi.
		You can also see the famous wall in Alandi on which Dnyaneshwar sat and flew the wall to meet Changdev.
		The other famous places in Alandi are Muktai temple, Ram temple, Krishna Temple, Math of Swami Hariharendra, Vitthal-Rakhumai temple and the famous wall.
	www.aroundpune.com /alandi.htm (164 words)

	On a pilgrim’s trail under the hot sun - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kamte is part of a two-lakh strong warkari group which accompanies the palkhi of Sant Dnyaneshwar, the patron saint of Alandi to Pandharpur every year.
		An identical number of warkaris accompany the palkhi of Sant Tukaram from the temple town of Dehu to Pandharpur during the same period.
		At 6 am, the atmosphere around the Palkhi Vithoba mandir in Pune’s Nanapeth area is a beehive of activity as thousands of devotees throng the mandir for a glimpse of the silver palkhi of Sant Dnyaneshwar.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jul162006/finearts1842492006714.asp (1003 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Article
		Archival Films such as Sant Tukaram, Sant Eknath, Sant Sakhu, and later Sant Tulsidas, Sant Dnyaneshwar, Narsinh Mehta and others were hailed as great films.
		The prime examples of filmi heroes becoming permanent divine icons are: Vishnupant Pagnis, a goldsmith, is venerated even today as Sant Tukaram, one of the greatest pioneers of the Varkari Bhakti cult of Pandharpur.
		Shahu Modak, who acted as Sant Dnyaneshwar, devoted the rest of his life to the study of the Dnyaneshwari and the Bhagavadgita though he was a Christian.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20020317/spectrum/main7.htm (1456 words)

	sant Dnayaneshwarji's web site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The institution is named after the great philosopher, Yogi, mystic, poet Sant Shree Dnyaneshwar Maharaj of Alandi (Maharashtra - India).
		He was born about seven hundred years ago and gave the greatest commentary on Geeta - the all inclusive Holy scriptures at the early age at sixteen and went into Sanjeevan Samadhi when he was only twenty-one.
		Inspired by the strong devotee and our revered Gurudeo, his Holiness Acharya Kishore Vyasji of Pune, we have founded this institute for spreading noble thoughts of Saint Dnyaneshwar Maharaj in Canada which has proved to be land of all cultures in the real sense of the term.
	www.santdnyaneshwarji.org (153 words)

	Excelsior... Nation
		The start of the Palkhi procession on june 14 was heralded by the departure of palanquins of Sant Dnyaneshwar from Alandi and Sant Tukaram from Dehu, near here amid chants of ‘Gyanba Tukaram, Gyanbachi Palkhi’ renting the air.
		A remarkable sight during this festival is the long and disciplined Palkhi procession comprising numerous small groups of Varkaris carrying Padukas (wooden slippers) of the various sants in palanquins and brandishing religious saffron flags while singing devotional songs and dancing to the tune of the traditional instruments like Lezim and Taal.
		A special feature of the festival this year is that for the first time a thirty-year-old palanquin dedicated to saint Dnyaneshwar has been replaced with a new Palanquin with a modern and more decorative look.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /01june26/national.htm (2588 words)

	The saint and the samaritan
		Two huge paintings, about 12 feet high - one of Sant Dnyaneshwar (the 13th century Marathi saint who wrote a critique on Bhagwad Gita in Marathi) and another of Sant Tukaram (the 17th century Marathi saint) - stare impressively at you.
		Besides, there are two other photographs of Sant Dnyaneshwar and an idol adorned with fresh flowers.
		Amidst these plush environs, that exude the fragrance of incense sticks, Karad talks about Sant Dnyaneshwar, the source of inspiration in his life.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990621/ile21146.html (1410 words)

	News » Traffic arrangements for palkhis in city
		IndianExpress: VARIOUS roads in the city on which the palkhis of Sant Dnyaneshwar Maharaj and Sant Tukaram Maharaj will proceed, are to be closed for traffic between Sunday and June 22.
		Sant Tukaram Maharaj’s palkhi will camp at Akurdi on Sunday night and leave for Pune on Monday morning.
		Sant Dnyaneshwar Maharaj palkhi will reach Pune on Tuesday and camp in Pune till June 22.
	pune360.com /News/2006/06/18/traffic-arrangements-for-palkhis-in-city (240 words)

	Alandi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sant Dnyaneshwar - a famous saint in Maharashtra - was born in Apegaon near Paithan and Alandi is the place of his Samadhi.
		Alandi is situated on the banks of river Indrayani and the ghat behind the samadhi temple is very beautiful.
		Alandi is also a pilgrim center and people take out "The Palakhi" in the month of Ashadh.
	www.desirazu.com /Alandi.htm (96 words)

	Beyond Devotion by V. Radhika
		These pilgrims, called 'warkaris', accompany a procession of palanquins (palkhi) of nearly 50 saints from Maharashtra - the Bhakti movement saints, Dnyaneshwar and Tukaram, being two of the most prominent.
		The saints themselves, in fact, belonged to different castes - the Brahmin Dnyaneshwar; the grocer Tukaram; the gardener Sawata; and the potter Gora Kumbhar are examples.
		Over the centuries, most saints - Dnyaneshwar and Tukaram included - have followed the tradition of wari.
	www.boloji.com /wfs3/wfs412.htm (989 words)

	Kanara Saraswat Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		On Sunday, the 4th Oct. 98 a grand musical programme "Sant Dnyaneshwar" was presented in Konkani by the Saraswati Vrindagaan, Saraswat Mahila Samaj, Gamdevi, Mumbai.
		Sadhana Kamat who led the group gave a lucid commentary on the life and philosophy of Sant Dnyaneshwar in simple Konkani which could be understood by all.
		Her comments interspersed with songs with appropriate lyrics transported one to the age when Sant Dnyaneshwar lived.
	www.kanarasaraswat.org /MagHereThere.html (1315 words)

	Sant Dnyaneshwar
		Vithalpant managed to spend his time in the study of Vedas and Shastras.
		In the course of time four children were borne to the couple: Nivrutti in the year 1273, Dnyandeo (Dnyaneshwar) in 1275, Sopan in 1277 and the fourth a daughter Muktabai in 1279.
		Everything was fine until Nivrutti was seven years old which is the time when a boy of brahmin parentage has to undergo thread ceremony and be inducted as a brahmin.
	www.pandharpur.info /renting_commercial.htm (743 words)

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