Namdev

Born near Pune, Namdev is held to have begun as a devotee of Vithoba, a form of Krishna, at the Pandharpur temple, later traveling as far as Punjab, where several of his hymns were preserved.

His abhangs, devotional verses, remain central to the Varkari tradition's annual Pandharpur pilgrimage, and, like Kabir and Ravidas, several of his compositions were included in the Guru Granth Sahib, reflecting the cross-regional reach bhakti poetry achieved even before print.