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.