The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (584 page)

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D
d
Day
l
(
c.
1543–1603).
A saint of N. India in the
Sant tradition
who composed poetry in Hindi. D
d
gathered a group of disciples about him who collected his poems together in a volume called
D
duv
i
. These poems, some of which are intensely personal, speak of devotion (
bhakti
) to a God beyond qualities (
nirgu
a
) and the anguish of separation from God. His biography was written by Jan Gopal,
D
d
Janam L
la
, (
c.
1620).

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