Dhanna Bhagat

Who is Dhanna Bhagat?

Dhanna Bhagat was a Bhagat. He was born in the village of Dhuan Kalan near Deoli city, in the Tonk district of Rajasthan, India.

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