sant
santA poet-saint of the North Indian devotional tradition, drawing on both bhakti and Sufi currents, often beyond formal Hindu and Muslim boundaries; Kabir and Guru Nanak are examples.
Where this term appears
- Hinduism and the Coming of Islam History
Out of that confluence came the sant tradition of north India, the poet-saints who belonged fully to neither religion and spoke past both.
- The Bhakti Movement History
Many people, especially in the north, imagine that bhakti "began" with Kabir or with the sants of the Hindi belt in the fifteenth or sixteenth century.
- What is Puja? Worship
The nirguna poet-saints, the sant tradition associated with figures like Kabir, sang of a formless divine and were sharp about stone gods.
- A genre that was always bilingual Treatise
Sanskrit haṭhayoga, Marathi bhakti, Nāth hagiography and Hindī sant poetry, with dates, forty-seven years before the catalogue.
- The other bank Treatise
…ll tributary of the Rapti, in what was then Basti district and is now Sant Kabir Nagar, some twenty five kilometres west of Gorakhpur.