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'''Sant Janābāi''' was a [[Marathi people|Marāthi]] religious 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.<ref>{{cite book|title=Women and the Law|page=18|author=Dalbir Bharti|publisher=APH Publishing|year=2008}}</ref><br />
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Janabai was born in [[Gangakhed|Gangākhed 1258-1350]], [[Maharashtra|Mahārāshtra]] to a couple with first names ''rand'' and ''Karand''. Under the [[Caste System in India|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 people|Marathi]] religious poet [[Namdev|Nāmdev]]. Janabai was likely a little older than Namdev, and attended to him for many years.<br />
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Pandharpur has high religious significance especially among Marathi-speaking Hindus. Janabai's employers, Damasheti and his wife, ''Gonāi'', were very religious. Through the influence of the religious environment around her and her innate inclination, Janabai was always an ardent devotee of Lord [[Vitthal]]. She was also a talented poet. Though she never had any formal schooling, she composed many high-quality religious verses of the ''[[abhang]] (अभंग)'' form. Some of her compositions were preserved along with those of Namdev. Authorship of about 300 ''abhang'' is traditionally attributed to Janabai. However, researchers believe that quite a few of them were in fact compositions of some other writers.<br />
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Along with [[Dnyaneshwar|Dnyāneshwar]], [[Namdev|Nāmdev]], [[Eknath|Eknāth]], and [[Tukaram]], Janabai has a revered place in the minds of Marathi-speaking Hindus who belong especially to the ''[[Warkari|wārakari]] (वारकरी)'' sect in Maharashtra. In accord with a tradition in India of assigning the epithet ''sant (संत)'' to persons regarded as thoroughly saintly, all of the above religious figures including Janabai are commonly attributed that epithet in Maharashtra. Thus, Janabai is routinely referred to as ''Sant Janabai (संत जनाबाई)''.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Backward-caste Hindu Saints]]<br />
* [[Warkari|Wārakari]]<br />
* [[Women in Hinduism]]<br />
* [[Bhakti movement]]<br />
* [[Namdev]]<br />
* [[Nivruttinath]]<br />
* [[Dnyaneshwar]]<br />
* [[Tukaram]]<br />
* [[Eknath]]<br />
* [[Sopan]]<br />
* [[Muktabai]]<br />
* [[Chokhamela]]<br />
* [[Sant Soyarabai]]<br />
* [[ Gadge Maharaj ]]<br />
* [[Sant Mat]]<br />
* [[Pandharpur Wari]] – the largest annual pilgrimage in Maharashtra that includes a ceremonial ''[[Palkhi]]'' of Tukaram and Jñāneśvar.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/J/Janabai/index.htm Janabai: Poems and Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061209193416/http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/J/Janabai/index.htm |date=2006-12-09 }}<br />
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