DADU DAYAL Bhakti Poet/Saint of India. Translation Introduction Paul Smith. Dadu Dayal (15441603) was a Bhakti poet/saint from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Dadu means brother and Dayal means the compassionate one. He was found by an affluent businessman floating on the river Sabarmati. He later moved to Amer near Jaipur Rajasthan, where he gathered around himself a group of followers, forming a sect that became known as the Dadupanth. Dadus compositions were recorded by his disciple Rajjab and are known as the Dadu Anubhav Vani, a compilation of 5,000 couplets, many of them bhajans and dohas. Dadu spent the latter years of his life in Naraiana. Five ashrams are considered sacred by the followers Naraiana, Bhairanaji, Sambhar, Amer, and Karadala (Kalyanpura). He was born in 1544, and died in 1603. He made his living by sewing skins into bags for raising water from wells, until eventually he was initiated into the religious life by the sadhu Sundardas. Dadu had no booklearning but his natural genius and the vision gained by his devotion made him a lover of beauty and a poet. Here are over 85 of his wonderful, powerful bhajans dohas in the correct rhyming form for the first time. Large Print (16pt) Large Format (8" x 10") Edition. 128 pages. Paul Smith (b. 1945) is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets from the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu, Hindi and other languages including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, Attar, Sanai, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani,...

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