Dhanna Bhagat, also known Dhanna Jaat or Dhanna Jatt, Dhanna Bairagi, Sant Dhanna (born 1415) was a mystic poet and a Vaishnav devotee whose three hymns are present in
Adi Granth
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.
Early life
He was born in the village of
Dhuan Kalan near Tehsil Dooni, in the
Tonk district of
Rajasthan
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, India. and was disciple of bhakti poet-sant Guru
Ramananda
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Divine powers
There are a number of mystical stories about the divine powers of Dhanna Bhagat. One such states that once he was ploughing his fields, a large number of sanyasis (Hindu religious mendicants) came to him hungry and sought food. Dhanna Bhagat gave them all the seeds he had kept for sowing his fields, and ploughed the fields without sowing seeds. The fields produced no food grains, but
gourds. When his Jagirdar (land-owner) came to collect the levy, Dhanna Bhagat offered two gourds. Surprised and insulted, the Jagirdar broke the gourds in anger, only to find that they were full of
pearl
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s. Bhakti-saint Meera refers to this story in her poem, "sun lijo binati mori, main sharan gahi prabhu teri".
Popular culture
Indian filmmaker
Kidar Nath Sharma made ''Dhanna Bhagat'' in 1945 which starred Kamal Zamindar in the titular role. In 1974, ''Bhagat Dhanna Jatt'', an Indian
Punjabi
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* Something of, from, or related to Punjab, a region in India and Pakistan
* Punjabi language
* Punjabi people
* Punjabi dialects and languages
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* Punjabi (horse), a British Th ...
-language film starring
Dara Singh
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, was released.
References
*Sahib Sirigh, Bhagat-BaniSati`k, vol. I. Amritsar, 1979
External links
Bhagat Dhanna Gurudwara
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People from Rajasthan
Hindu mystics
Hindu poets
1415 births
Year of death unknown