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Tukaram was a 17th-century Marathi poet and sant, popularly known as Tuka, Tukobaraya, Tukoba in Maharashtra. He was a Sant of Varkari sampradaya in Maharashtra, India. ... Sant Tukaram Maharaj is best known for his devotional poetry called Abhanga and community-oriented worship with spiritual songs known as kirtans.
Sant Tukaram Biography
• Sant Tukaram was born and lived most of his life in Dehu, a town close to Pune in Maharashtra, India.
• Kumar, Munshi, Kincaid and Parasanisa, consider him to be of the Vani or grocer caste.
• In accordance with an ancient Indian tradition, Tukaram's family name is rarely used in identifying him.
• His real name is Tukaram Vhilhoba Aambile.
• Rather, in accord with another tradition in India of assigning the epithet "sant" to persons regarded as thoroughly saintly, Tukaram is commonly known in Maharashtra as Sant Tukaram (संत तुकाराम).
• He is known as Bhakta Tukaram to southern Indian people.
• Scholars assign various birth years to Sant Tukaram: 1602, 1608, 1618 and 1639 CE.
• The year of Sant Tukaram's death —1650 CE— is much more certain.
• Sant Tukaram's first wife, Rakhumabai, died in 1602 in her early youth.
• Sant Tukaram and his second wife, Jijabai (also known as Avali), had three sons: Santu or Mahadev, Vithoba, and Narayan.
• Dilip Purushottam Chitre, a well known Marathi Scholar, identifies Tukaram as the first modern poet of Marathi.
• Chitre believes that Tukaram was the second saint after Sant Dhyaneshwar who denied caste hierarchy in Hindu religion and attacked rituals present in Hindu Dharma.