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Meera

1498 - 1546

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Meera, better known as Mirabai, and venerated as Sant Meerabai, was a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna. She is a celebrated Bhakti saint, particularly in the North Indian Hindu tradition. She is mentioned in Bhaktamal, confirming that she was widely known and a cherished figure in the Bhakti movement by about 1600. In her poems, she expressed madhurya bhava towards Krishna. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Meera is the 633rd most popular writer (down from 439th in 2019), the 97th most popular biography from India (down from 49th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Indian Writer.

Meera is most famous for her poem the "Bhagavad Gita" which she recited to Lord Krishna.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Meera ranks 633 out of 7,302. Before her are Patricia Highsmith, Franz Werfel, André Chénier, Kumārajīva, Gabriele Amorth, and Kōbō Abe. After her are Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aratus, A. J. Cronin, Allen Ginsberg, and Hermann Broch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1498, Meera ranks 3. Before her are Eleanor of Austria, and Katharina von Bora. After her are Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, Maarten van Heemskerck, Giulio Clovio, Andrés de Urdaneta, Sophie of Pomerania, Miguel da Paz, Prince of Portugal, Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne, Hieronymus Bock, and Andreas Osiander. Among people deceased in 1546, Meera ranks 5. Before her are Martin Luther, Hayreddin Barbarossa, Francisco de Orellana, and Giulio Romano. After her are Francisco de Vitoria, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Marinus van Reymerswaele, Étienne Dolet, Petru Rareș, and Isabella di Morra.

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In India

Among people born in India, Meera ranks 97 out of 1,861. Before her are Priyanka Chopra (1982), Augustus De Morgan (1806), Paramahansa Yogananda (1893), Maudgalyayana (-568), Aśvaghoṣa (80), and Sri Aurobindo (1872). After her are N. R. Narayana Murthy (1946), Ramana Maharshi (1879), Mahākāśyapa (-550), Harsha (590), Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350), and Premchand (1880).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Meera ranks 13. Before her are Salman Rushdie (1947), Ghalib (1797), Jim Corbett (1875), Tulsidas (1532), Savitribai Phule (1831), and William Makepeace Thackeray (1811). After her are Premchand (1880), Zeb-un-Nissa (1638), Vātsyāyana (300), Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551), Basava (1134), and Lawrence Durrell (1912).

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