Janabai

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.

Janabai was born in Gangākhed 1258-1350, Mahārāshtra to a couple with first names Damā and Karund. Under the caste system the couple belonged to the matang. After her mother died, her father took her to Pandharpur. Since her childhood, Janabai worked as a maid servant in the household of Dāmāsheti, who lived in Pandharpur and who was the father of the prominent Marathi religious Sant and poet Nāmdev. Janabai was likely a little older than Namdev, and attended to him for many years.