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- Born:
- 1608, Dehu, near Pune, India
- Died:
- 1649 (aged 41)
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TukÄrÄm
Indian poet
TukÄrÄm (born 1608, Dehu, near Pune, Indiaādied 1649) was a Marathi poet who is often considered to be the greatest writer in the language. His abhaį¹ gas, or āunbrokenā hymns, are among the most famous Indian poems.
The son of a shopkeeper, TukÄrÄm was orphaned in childhood. Failing in business and family life, he renounced the world and became an itinerant ascetic. It is believed that he threw himself into a river and drowned. TukÄrÄm is thought to have written over 4,000 abhaį¹ gas, most of which were addressed to the god Viį¹hoba of Pandharpur. An edition of his poems translated into English by J. Nelson Fraser and K.B. Marathe was published in 1909ā15 and reprinted in 1981.
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