Bhagat Dhanna

Dhanna Bhagat (born 1415) was a mystic poet and a Vaishnav devotee whose three hymns are present in Adi Granth.[1]

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He was born in the village of dhuwa near tehsil Dooni, in the Tonk district of Rajasthan,[2] India in hindu Dhaliwal Jat family.[3]

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 pearls. Bhakti-saint Meera refers to this story in her poem, "sun lijo binati mori, main sharan gahi prabhu teri".[4]

In 1974, a Punjabi movie called Bhagat Dhanna Jatt, starring Dara Singh, was released.

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References
  1. "Sri Guru Granth Sahib Raags Index - Author: Bhagat Dhanna - SearchGurbani.com". www.searchgurbani.com. Retrieved 2020-06-05.
  2. Page 107, Guru Granth Sahib Among The Scriptures Of The World, Darshan Singh, Publication Bureau, Punjabi University, Jan 1, 2004
  3. Page 60, The Encyclopedia of Sikhism (over 1000 Entries), H. S. Singha, Hemkunt Press, 2000
  4. "मीरा बाई के पद-1 - Wikisource". wikisource.org. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  • Sahib Sirigh, Bhagat-BaniSati`k, vol. I. Amritsar, 1979

Thakur Deshraj, Jat Itihas (Hindi), Maharaja Suraj Mal Smarak Shiksha Sansthan, Delhi, 1934, 2nd edition 1992 page 611.

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