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Mirabai

मीराबाई

c. 1498 – 1547Mewar, RajasthanKrishna bhakti

A Rajput princess whose bhajans dissolve the ordinary architecture of marriage, household and heir into a single, single-pointed devotion to Krishna. Her refusals are sung as freedom rather than tragedy.

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