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Two treatises in Hindi, Gyan-lila and Yog-cintamani are also attributed to Ramanand, as are the Sanskrit works Vaisnava Mata Bhajabhaskara and Ramarcana paddhati. Saint Ramananda is credited as the author of many devotional poems, but like most Bhakti movement poets, whether he actually was the author of these poems is unclear. Other scholars state that Saint Ramananda's education started in Adi Shankara's Advaita Vedanta school, before he met Raghavananda and began his studies in Ramanuja's Vishishtadvaita Vedanta school. There, and not in the South, he had Saint Ramananda as his disciple." – George A. "It was Saint Ramananda's teacher, Raghavananda, who came from the South, and after much wandering had settled at Benares. Īccording to the medieval era Bhaktamala text by Nabhadas, Saint Ramananda studied under Raghavananda, a guru (teacher) in Vedanta-based Vatakalai (northern, Rama-avatar) school of Vaishnavism. "Not one word is said as to his southern origin, and the fact that he was stated to be a Kanyakubja Brahmin is decisively against such a theory" – George A. In fact, all genuinely Indian sources agree in stating that Ramananda was born at Prayaga (Allahabad). Although few people hold him to be of southern origin, there's no evidence to support such a claim. The most accepted version holds that Saint Ramananda was born in a Brahmin family, about mid 14th-century, and died about mid 15th-century. Little is known with certainty about the life of Saint Ramananda, including year of birth and death His biography has been derived from mentions of him in secondary literature and inconsistent Hagiographies.

4.2 Largest ascetic community in India: Ramanandi Sampraday.

4.1 Twelve disciples of Jagadguru Saint Ramanandacharya.

Saint Ramananda was known for composing his works and discussing spiritual themes in vernacular Hindi, stating that this makes knowledge accessible to the masses. His verse is mentioned in the Sikh scripture Adi Granth. Traditional scholarship holds that his disciples included later Bhakti movement poet-sants such as Kabir, Ravidas, Bhagat Pipa and others, however some postmodern scholars have questioned some of this spiritual lineage while others have supported this lineage with historical evidence. Īn early social reformer, Saint Ramananda accepted disciples without discriminating anyone by gender, class. Tradition asserts that Saint Ramananda developed his philosophy and devotional themes inspired by the south Indian Vedanta philosopher Ramanuja, however evidence also suggests that Saint Ramananda was influenced by Nathpanthi ascetics of the Yoga school of Hindu philosophy. His year of birth or death are uncertain, but historical evidence suggests he was one of the earliest saints and a pioneering figure of the Bhakti movement as it rapidly grew in North India, sometime between the 14th and mid 15th century during its Islamic rule period. īorn in a Brahman family, Saint Ramananda for the most part of his life lived in the holy city of Varanasi. The Hindu tradition recognizes him as the founder of the Ramanandi Sampradaya, the largest monastic Hindu renunciant community in modern times. Ramananda ( IAST: Rāmānanda) was a 14th-century Vaishnava devotional poet saint, who lived in the Gangetic basin of northern India.