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'''Mahipati''' (1715 - 1790) <ref>{{cite book|last=Lutgendorf|first=Philip|title=Hanuman's tale the messages of a divine monkey|url=https://archive.org/details/hanumanstalemess00lutg|url-access=limited|date=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=[[New York City|New York]]|isbn=978-0195309225|page=[https://archive.org/details/hanumanstalemess00lutg/page/n89 75]|edition=[Online-Ausg.].}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Lochtefeld|first=James G.|title=The illustrated encyclopedia of Hinduism.|url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc0000loch/page/409|url-access=registration|date=2002|publisher=Rosen|location=New York|isbn=9780823931798|page=[https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc0000loch/page/409 409]|edition=1st.}}</ref> was an 18th century [[Marathi language]] hagiographer who wrote biographies of prominent Hindu [[Vaishnava]] [[Sant (religion)|sant]]s who had lived between the 13th and the 17th centuries in [[Maharashtra]] and other regions of India.<ref name="Novetzkep53">{{cite book|last=Novetzke|first=Christian Lee|title=Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India|year=1969|publisher=Columbia University Press|location=New York Chichester|isbn=978-0231-14184-0|pages=53|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SqUdRVOv9TUC}}</ref><ref name="CallewaertSnell1994">{{cite book|author1=Winand M. Callewaert|author2=Rupert Snell|title=According to Tradition: Hagiographical Writing in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GrMwdEqHLzEC&pg=PA159|year=1994|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|isbn=978-3-447-03524-8|pages=162–166}}</ref>

==Early life==
Mahipati was born in a [[Marathi people|Marathi]] [[Deshastha Brahmin|Deshastha Rigvedi Brahmin]] family of Dadopant Kamble who was the hereditary [[Kulkarni]] (record keeper) of Taharabad in present day [[Ahmednagar district]] of Maharashtra. Dadopant and his wife were devotees of [[Vithoba]] of Pandharpur.<ref>Kincaid, C.A., 1919. Tales of the Saints of Pandharpur. Humphrey Milford, Bombay.</ref><ref name="Kher1895">{{cite book|author=Appaji Kashinath Kher|title=A Higher Anglo-Marathi Grammar Containing Accidence, Derivation, Syntax on a New Plan with the Analysis of Sentences ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3x0YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA451|year=1895|pages=451–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EQDyZA1y2nMC&pg=PP40|title=Stories of Indian Saints: Translation of Mahipati's Marathi Bhaktavijaya|author1=Justin Edwards Abbott|author2=Narhar R. Godbole|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|year=1988|page=40|isbn=978-8120804692}}</ref>
After his father's death, he inherited the job of Kulkarni for Taharabad. He also worked for a local [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] landlord. After falling out with his landlord, Mahipati devoted the rest of his life to performing [[Kirtan]]s on lives of saints, collecting information on these saints and writing their hagiographies.<ref name="CallewaertSnell1994">{{cite book|author1=Winand M. Callewaert|author2=Rupert Snell|title=According to Tradition: Hagiographical Writing in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GrMwdEqHLzEC&pg=PA159|year=1994|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|isbn=978-3-447-03524-8|pages=162–166}}</ref>

==Works==
During his life, Mahipati played down his abilities, his hagiographies of the [[Varkari]] saints are considered to be the most authoritative.<ref name="Novetzkep53" /> Mahipati claimed Varkari sant [[Tukaram]] as the inspiration for his writings.<ref>{{cite book|last=Abbott|first=Justin E.|title=Stories of Indian Saints: An English Translation of Mahipati's BhaktiVijaya , Volume 1|year=1933|publisher=Motilal Banarasidass Publishers|isbn=8120804694|pages=Chapter 9, 34–45|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EQDyZA1y2nMC}}</ref>
Although in early part of his literary career he relied on works by [[Nabha Dass]] and Uddhava Ciddhan for his biographies, he soon realized shortcomings in their accounts of the saints and started collecting information himself. Mahipati, at times, during his life wrote multiple biographies of the same saint. He included any new information he obtained about the saint in his newer biographies. He also believed that the lives of the revered saints can not be grasped in a single sweep. Callewaert et al , therefore call the later biographies as the "revised editions of the old books. <ref name="CallewaertSnell1994">{{cite book|author1=Winand M. Callewaert|author2=Rupert Snell|title=According to Tradition: Hagiographical Writing in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GrMwdEqHLzEC&pg=PA159|year=1994|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|isbn=978-3-447-03524-8|pages=162–166}}</ref> Mahipati wrote his biographies in the [[Ovi (poetry)|Ovi]] metre.<ref name="Kher1895">{{cite book|author=Appaji Kashinath Kher|title=A Higher Anglo-Marathi Grammar Containing Accidence, Derivation, Syntax on a New Plan with the Analysis of Sentences ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3x0YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA451|year=1895|pages=451–}}</ref> Christian Lee Novetzke considers Mahipati's work to be a kind of transcribed kirtan. Indeed during his life mahipati, per Novetzke, was known as a kirtankar (Kirtan performer) rather than a writer. <ref name="Novetzke2008">{{cite book|author=Christian Lee Novetzke|title=Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SqUdRVOv9TUC|date=1 July 2008|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-51256-5|page=121}}</ref>

;Selected Works<ref name="Kher1895">{{cite book|author=Appaji Kashinath Kher|title=A Higher Anglo-Marathi Grammar Containing Accidence, Derivation, Syntax on a New Plan with the Analysis of Sentences ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3x0YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA451|year=1895|pages=451–}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Work !! Chapters !! Number of [[Ovi (poetry)|Ovis]] !! Year of Composition
|-
| [[Bhaktavijaya]] || 57 || 9916 || 1762
|-
| Kathasaramrita (1765) ||12 || 7200 || 1765
|-
| Santalilaamrit (1757) || 35 || 5259 || 1757
|-
| Bhaktalilaamrit (1774) || 51 || 10794 || 1774
|-
| Santavijayaश् || 26 (incomplete) || 4628 || 1796
|-
| Pandharimahatmya ||12 || - || -
|-
| Anantvratkatha || - ||186 || -
|-
| dattatryeya janma || - || 112 || -
|-
| tulasi Mahatmya || 5 || 763 || -
|-
| Ganeshpuran ||4 (Incomplete) || 304 || -
|-
| Pandurang stotra || - || 308 || -
|-
| Muktabharan vrat || - ||101 || -
|-
| Rishpanchami vrat || - || 142 || -
|-
| Apradh nivedan stotra || - || 101 || -
|-
|Sphut abhang and stotre || - || - || -
|}

==Legacy==
*An English translation of ''[[Bhaktavijaya]]'', originally written by Mahipati around 1762,<ref name="Novetzkep53" /> was published under the provisions of the will of American Missionary, Justin E. Abbott in 1933.<ref>{{cite book|last=Abbott|first=Justin E.|title=Stories of Indian Saints: An English Translation of Mahipati's BhaktiVijaya , Volume 1|year=1933|publisher=Motilal Banarasidass Publishers|isbn=8120804694|pages=Chapter 9, 34–45|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EQDyZA1y2nMC}}</ref><ref name="CallewaertSnell1994"/>
* Mahipati's town of Tahrabad has declared as a pilgrimage site by the government of Maharashtra. A pilgrim guest house has been constructed in the town for Mahipati devotees.
*The pilgrimage complex in tahrabad includes his house, a Vitthal temple and a memorial to Mahipati consisting of a [[Tulasi chaura|Tulasi Vrindavan]].
*Mahipati used to perform the annual [[Pandharpur Wari]] during his lifetime. The tradition continues with his symbolic sandals taken to Pandharpur from Tahrabad by his followers.

== Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Mahipati Aad.jpg | Mahipati Well in Taharabad
Image:Mahipati Samadhi.jpg | Mahipati Memorial in Taharabad
Image:Mahipati Devshtan.jpg | Mahipati Temple in Taharabad
Image:Mahipati Paduka.jpg | Mahipati Paduka ( Ceremonial Sandals) in Taharabad
</gallery>

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[[Category:People from Ahmednagar district]]
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