Sant Janābāi was a Marāthi religious Sant and poet in the 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 Gangākhed 1258-1350, Mahārāshtra [2] to a couple with first names Damā and Karund. Under the caste system the couple belonged to the matang.

Janabai is one of the early women saints of Maharashtra during the period of the medieval Bhakti movement. She was one of the greatest women Sant in the Vitthal Sampradaya, the tradition of devotion to Vitthal of Panadarpur.

Jul 22, 2024 · However, she broke all the prisons and barriers of caste to emerge as Janabai – the revered Marathi female saint whose abhangs or devotional poems are sung hitherto. She truly is an embodiment of courage, justice, resilience, for she exemplified great valor in enduring the brutality and inhumanity of society.

A son of the family, Sant Namdev, became one of the chief Varkari poets, writing in vernacular Marathi and teaching equality of all regardless of caste or gender before God. Janabai cared for the young Namdev and remained his servant, his dasi, throughout her life. Tradition says that they died on the same day.

Janabai was a poet from Maharashtra, India. She wrote around 340 Marathi abhangas (poems). Her poems include stories of Krishna’s birth, childhood, and play, along with a story about all the ten avatars (reincarnations) of Vishnu.

May 11, 2020 · An image found in Hindu temples shows a god and woman grinding together at a mill. This is the revered Hindu sant (holy person) called Janabai. Janabai was a low-caste maidservant and poet.

Jul 28, 2022 · Janabai, a medieval Indian saint-poet composing in the Marathi language, is of particular importance as a shudra (lower caste) woman author. She possibly has the largest corpus (more than 340 poems) among the female Varkari saints.