Bhagat Dhanna

Dhanna Bhagat (born 1415) was a mystic poet and one of devotees whose three hymns are present in Adi Granth.

He was born in the village of Choru gurudwara near tehsil Faggi, in the Jaipur district of Rajasthan, India in Jat family.

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.

He was initiated by Ramananda.

Divine powers

There are a number of myths about the divine powers of Dhanna Bhagat. One such states that once he was ploughing his fields. Large number of sanyasis came to him and demanded food. He gave them all the seed kept for sowing, and ploughed the fields without sowing seeds. The fields produced no food grains, but gourds. When Jagirdar came to collect the levy he offered two gourds. The Jagirdar broke the gourds and found that they were full of pearls. There is a proverb:

Bhagat

For the Sindhi performance art see Sindhi bhagat

Bhagat means devotee, and comes from the Sanskrit word Bhakti, which means devotion and love towards God. Indian (northern states): Hindu and Jain name, from modern Indo-Aryan bhagat ‘devotee’, ‘votary’, from Sanskrit bhakta, a derivative of the verb root bhaj- ‘to serve or adore’.

In Hinduism and Sikhism, the Bhagats (Punjabi: ਭਗਤ, from Sanskrit भक्त) were holy men of various sects whose teachings are included in the Sri Guru Granth Sahib.There are 15 Bhagats who are given respect in the Guru Granth Sahib as the Bani of the Ten Sikh Gurus. They evolved a belief in one God that preceded Bhagat Kabir selected the writings of The Great Hindu Bhaktis and Sufi saints. In Hinduism and bhagat Sikhism, the community, which follow the teachings of Bhagat Kabir, they known as Bhagat. In Punjab, Bhagat community having faith in Hindu and Sikh religion. Bhagats having their faith in all the Gurus of Sikhism but they considered Bhagat Kabir is their chief Guru.