Ravidas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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north Indian Guru of the 16th century,Buddhism
Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001
Place of Birth: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001
Profession: poet, philosopher
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Ravidas
- Ravidas was an Indian mystic poet-sant of the Bhakti movement during the 15th to 16th century CE.
- Venerated as a guru (teacher) in the region of Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, the devotional songs of Ravidas have had a lasting impact upon the bhakti movement.
- He was a poet-saint, social reformer and a spiritual figure. The life details of Ravidas are uncertain and contested.
- Scholars believe he was born at 1371 CE, in a family that worked with dead animals' skins to produce leather products and very much known in India as untouchables.
- If tradition and medieval era texts are to be believed then Ravidas was one of the disciples of the bhakti saint-poet Ramananda and a contemporary of the bhakti saint-poet Kabir.Ravidas' devotional songs were included in the Sikh scriptures, Guru Granth Sahib.
- The Panch Vani text of the Dadupanthi tradition within Hinduism also includes numerous poems of Ravidas.
- Ravidas taught removal of social divisions of caste and gender, and promoted unity in the pursuit of personal spiritual freedoms.
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