Dhanna Bhagat was a Hindu

Hindu

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 Bhagat

Bhagat

For the Sindhi performance art see Sindhi bhagatIn Sikhism, the Sikh Bhagats were holy men of various sects whose teachings are included in the Sikh holy book the Sri Guru Granth Sahib. The word "Bhagat" means devotee, and comes from the Sanskrit word Bhakti, which means devotion and love...

. He was born in the village

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 of Dhuan Kalan

Dhuan Kalan

Dhuan Kalan is a village near Deoli city, in the Tonk district of Rajasthan, India. The famous saint and social reformer Dhanna Bhagat was born in village Chauru in Tonk district but his father moved to this village and settled here. This village was earlier known as Abhaynagar. There is a...

 near Deoli city, in the Tonk district

Tonk District

Tonk District is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. The city of Tonk is the administrative headquarters of the district. The district is bounded on the north by Jaipur district, on the east by Sawai Madhopur district, on the southeast by Kota district, on the south by Bundi...

 of Rajasthan

Rajasthan

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, India

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Max Arthur Macauliffe

Max Arthur Macauliffe

Michael MacAuliffe, also known as Max Arthur Macauliffe , was a senior British administrator, prolific scholar and author. Macauliffe is renowned for his translation of Sikh scripture and history into English....

 fixes 1415 as the year of Dhanna's birth, but his name does not appears in the writings of Kabir

Kabir

Kabīr was a mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement...

 or Ravidas. The earliest mention of his name is in Mira Bai's songs that proclaims how Dhanna grew cereals without sowing seed.

The Guru Granth Sahib

Guru Granth Sahib

Sri Guru Granth Sahib , or Adi Granth, is the religious text of Sikhism. It is the final and eternal guru of the Sikhs. It is a voluminous text of 1430 angs, compiled and composed during the period of Sikh gurus, from 1469 to 1708...

 includes three of Dhana's hymns. "Loving devotion," says Dhanna in his sabda in Raga Asa, "is now fixed in my heart and thereby have I found solace and fulfilment. In whose heart is light divine manifested he alone recognizeth the Immaculate One."

He was initiated by Ramananda

Ramananda

Ramananda , also referred to as Sant Ramanand or Swami Ramanand, was a Vaishnava sant. He is considered to be the reviver of the Ramanandi sect. Ramananda for the most part of his life lived in the holy city of Varanasi, and was a pioneer of the Bhakti movement, as well as a social reformer in...

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Divine powers of Dhanna Bhagat

There are a number of myths about the divine powers of Dhanna Bhagat. One such states that once he was ploughing his fields. Large number of sanyasis came to him and demanded food. He gifted all the seed kept for sowing to them and ploughed fields without seeds. The fields produced no food grains but the gourd

Gourd

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s. When Jagirdar came to collect the levy he offered two gourds. The Jagirdar broke the gourds and found that they were full of pearl

Pearl

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s. There is a proverb:

धन्‍ना जाट का हरिसों हेत, Dhanna Jat ka Harison het,

बिना बीज के निपजा खेत। Bina Beej ke Nopaja khet.

Meaning - Dhanna Jat had so much love with God that fields produced foodgrain without seeds.

In Popular Culture

In 1974, a punjabi

Punjabi language

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 movie called Bhagat Dhanna Jatt starring Dara Singh

Dara Singh

Dara Singh Randhawa is a wrestler and Indian film actor. He was born in a Jat Sikh family of Punjabi background.He was a wrestler before he started acting in Hindi films in 1962....

was released.