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Kabir

South Asian Literature

Kabir is described by Open Library as a fifteenth-century Indian mystic poet and saint; the record gives his birth only as the fifteenth century and carries no exact dates. The catalogue holds about sixty-six works under his name, chiefly editions and translations of his poetry, among them One Hundred Poems of Kabir, first published in 1914, Songs of Kabir, 1915, The Bijak, or, The Complete Works of Kabir, 1950, and Kabīra-granthāvalī, 1951. Its subject headings mark the works as poetry by one author and as translations into English.

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Poem 1
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Poetry, Genres
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Tukaram, Authors
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Kabir also wrote in pure Bhojpuri

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famous Indian devotional mystic poet
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Kabir (Open Library)
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15th-century Indian mystic poet and saint
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Tukaram (Wikipedia)
Influenced: Tukaram, Philosophy and practices
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Tukarama repeatedly refers to four people who had a primary influence on his spiritual development, namely the sants Namdev, Dnyaneshwar, Kabir, and Eknath
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