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Meera
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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).
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Meera, also known as Mirabai, was an Indian poet, writer, and mystic associated with the Bhakti movement and Vaishnavism. Born in Merta City, she held the noble title of princess within the Rathore family. Her work period began in 1516 and concluded in 1546. She wrote in Hindi and adhered to the Hindu religion.
Her life ended in Dwarka, where she died by drowning. Records indicate her date of death as 1546, 1547, or 1552, while her birth year is listed as either 1498 or 1504. She is described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and is included in the Art+Feminism focus list.
Synthesized by Vinony from 35 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 46
Top works
- Healthiest You Ever
- 365 Ways to Relax Bundle
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- Sacred Travels
- Tout sur la loi de l'attraction
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- India
- Active from
- 1498
- Active to
- 1547
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,973
- Total plays
- 17,922
Tags
Meera is an Iranian rock band based in Tehran, Iran. Meera is one of the few Iranian Rock bands that have always experimented on the Art/Rock genre and through its song writing style(Lyrics), have always been a great believer to its cultural identity and its great literature. The band has been one of the pioneers of modern Iranian rock music, after the revolution. With careful maneuvering, Meera was one of the first Iran based rock acts to be able to gain state approval for an official album r
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions
· 2016 · cited 15,459x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,904x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,796x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,417x
- Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK
· 2021 · cited 4,165x
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Key facts
- Religious biography.name
- Mirabai
- Religious biography.image
- Kangra painting of Mirabai, the female Bhakti saint.jpg
- Religious biography.caption
- Kangra painting of Mirabai playing the veena
- Religious biography.birth_name
- Premal
- Religious biography.birth_place
- Kudki, Kingdom of Marwar
- Religious biography.death_date
- c.
- Religious biography.death_place
- Dwarka
- Religious biography.religion
- Hinduism
- Religious biography.known_for
- Poems, Bhakti for Krishna
- Religious biography.honorific prefix
- Sant
- Religious biography.father
- Rao Ratan Singh Rathore
- Religious biography.dynasty
- Rathore (by birth) Sisodia (by marriage)
- Religious biography.mother
- Veer Kanwar
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Hagiographical variations
- Poetry
- Hindi and Rajasthani
- Ravidas as Mira's Guru
- Sikh literature
- Mirabai's compositions
- Influence
- English translations
- Popular culture
- Film and TV adaptations
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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).
Most legends about Mirabai mention her fearless disregard for social and family conventions, her devotion to Krishna, and her persecution by her in-laws for her religious devotion. Her in-laws never liked her passion for music, through which she expressed her devotion, and they considered it an insult to the upper caste people. It is said that amongst her in-laws, her husband was the only one to love and support her in her Bhakti, while some believed him to have opposed it. She has been the subject of numerous folk tales and hagiographic legends, which are inconsistent or widely different in details. According to legend, when her in-laws attempted to murder her with poison, Mirabai tied a sacred thread on a murti of Krishna, trusting in His divine protection, through which she was saved by divine intervention. This legend is sometimes cited as the origin of the ritual of tying rakhi on Krishna's murti.
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