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Tulsidas
Rambola (; 11 August 1511 – 30 July 1623), popularly known as Goswami Tulsīdās (), was a Vaishnava (Ramanandi) Hindu saint, devotee (भक्त) and poet, renowned for his devotion to the deity Rama. He wrote several popular works in Sanskrit, Awadhi, and Braj Bhasha, but is best known as the author of the Hanuman Chalisa and of the epic Ramcharitmanas, a retelling of the Sanskrit Ramayana, based on Rama's life, in the vernacular Awadhi language.
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
15th century Indian Vaishnavite saint
Meera
Meera, better known as Mirabai, and venerated as Sant Meerabai, was a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna. She is a celebrated Bhakti saint, particularly in the North Indian Hindu tradition. She is mentioned in Bhaktamal, confirming that she was widely known and a cherished figure in the Bhakti movement by about 1600. In her poems, she expressed her surrender towards Krishna often referring to herself as his daasi (servant).
Guru Arjan
The fifth Guru of Sikhism (1563-1606)
Guru Ram Das
The fourth Guru of Sikhism
Guru Angad Dev
The second Guru of Sikhism
Vallabha
Vallabha, also known as Vallabhācārya or Vallabha Dīkṣita (May 7, 1478 – July 7, 1530 CE), was the founder of the Kr̥ṣṇa-centered Puṣṭimārga sect of Vaishnavism, and propounded the philosophy of Śuddhādvaita.
Guru Amar Das
The third Guru of Sikhism
Eknath
Eknath (IAST: Eka-nātha, Marathi pronunciation: [eknath]) (c. 1533 – c. 1599), was an Indian Hindu Vaishnava saint, philosopher and poet. He was a devotee of Vitthal, a Hindu deity. He is a major figure of the Warkari tradition. He is often viewed as a spiritual successor to prominent Hindu Marathi saints Dnyaneshwar and Namdev.
Purandara Dasa
Indian musician
Mian Mir
Sufi saint (1550-1635)
Madhusūdana Sarasvatī
Indian philosopher in the Advaita Vedānta tradition
Vyasatirtha
Vyāsatīrtha (), also called Vyasaraja or Chandrikacharya, was a Hindu philosopher, scholar, polemicist, commentator and poet belonging to the Madhwacharya's Dvaita order of Vedanta. As the rajaguru of Vijayanagara Empire, Vyasatirtha was at the forefront of a golden age in Dvaita which saw new developments in dialectical thought, growth of the Haridasa literature under bards like Purandara Dasa and Kanaka Dasa and an increased spread of Dvaita across the subcontinent. He himself composed many kīrtanas in Kannada and Sanskrit.
Rupa Goswami
Indian guru, poet and philosopher of the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition (1489-1564)
Ali ibn Abd-al-Malik al-Hindi
Muslim scholar
Raghunatha Siromani
Indian philosopher
Appayya Dikshita
Indian philosopher
Jiva Goswami
16th-century Indian philosopher
Dadu Dayal
Indian saint
Vijnanabhiksu
Vijñānabhikṣu (also spelled Vijnanabhikshu) was a Hindu philosopher from Bihar, variously dated to the 15th or 16th century, known for his commentary on various schools of Hindu philosophy, particularly the Yoga text of Patanjali. His scholarship stated that there is a unity between Vedānta, Yoga, and Samkhya philosophies, and he is considered a significant influence on Neo-Vedanta movement of the modern era.
Achyutananda Dasa
Indian devotional Poet from Odisha
Niẓām-ad-Dīn Muḥammad
Islamic scholar
Sarvajna
Sarvajña was a Kannada poet, pragmatist and philosopher of the 16th century. The word "Sarvajna" in Sanskrit literally means "the all knowing". His father was Kumbara Malla and his mother was Mallaladevi. His birth anniversary is celebrated on February 20 every year. He belongs to the caste of Kumbara. He is famous for his pithy three-lined poems called tripadi (written in the native three-line verse metre, "with three padas, a form of Vachana"). He is also referred as Sarvagna in modern translation.
Sheikh Muhammad
Indian Muslim saint (1560–1650)
Raghuttama Tirtha
Hindu guru
Nagore Shahul Hamid
Mystic saint and Islamic preacher