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description: DADU: LIFE AND POEMS Translation &amp; Introduction by Paul Smith Dadu Dayal (1544-1603) 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 Dadu-panth. Dadus compositions were recorded by his disciple Rajjab and are known as the Dadu Anubhav Vani a compilation of 5000 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 book-learning but his natural genius and the vision gained by his devotion made him a lover of beauty and a poet. Here are 85 of his wonderful powerful bhajans &amp; dohas in the correct rhyming form for the first time. Introduction to Bhakti Poets Series TULSIDAS KABIR VRIND LALLA DED RAHIM VYASA JAYADEVA DADU (approx. 110-120 pages each others to follow) 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 Muin Amir Khusrau Nesimi Kabir Anvari Ansari Jami Khayyam Rudaki Lalla Ded Mahsati Baba Farid Iqbal Vrind Rahim and others and his own poetry fiction biographies plays childrens books and 12 screenplays. www.newhumanitybooks.com
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title: Dadu - Life and Poems
publisher: NEW HUMANITY BOOKS