Sant Dnyaneshwar (Marathi pronunciation: [d̪ɲaːn̪eʃʋəɾ] ), also referred to as Jnaneshwar, Jnanadeva, Dnyandev or Mauli or Dnyaneshwar Vitthal Kulkarni (1275–1296), [2] [3] was a 13th-century Indian Marathi saint, poet, philosopher and yogi of the Nath Shaiva and Varkari tradition.

Dnyaneshwar was born in 1275 (on the auspicious day of Krishna Janmashtami) in a Marathi -speaking Deshastha Brahmin family in Apegaon village on the banks of Godavari river near Paithan in Maharashtra during the reign of the Yadava king Ramadevarava. [9] [10] [11] The kingdom with its capital Devagiri enjoyed relative peace and stability, and.