Raghavdas

Rāghavdās was a Dadupanthi writer.¹ He belonged to the lineage of Haridās of the Naga Sadhus of the Dadupanthis.² He composed the Bhaktmāl in 1660 or 1720,³ a hagiographical work.⁴ The text covers fifty-two direct disciples of Dadu and many later Dadupanthi disciples.⁵ It is also the earliest extant work covering the life of Kabir.³

References

Fenech, Louis E. (2020). "The Image of Guru Nanak in Dadu-Panthi Sources". Religions. 11 (10): 518. doi:10.3390/rel11100518.
Zapart, Jarosław (16 May 2022). "The Ideology of Patronage and the Question of Identity in the Early Dādūpanth". Religions. 13 (5): 17. doi:10.3390/rel13050447.
Zapart, Jarosław (16 May 2022). "The Ideology of Patronage and the Question of Identity in the Early Dādūpanth". Religions. 13 (5): 4–5. doi:10.3390/rel13050447.
Monika Horstmann. "Dādū Dayāl". Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism Online. doi:10.1163/2212-5019_beh_COM_9000000105.
Horstmann, Monika (5 October 2015). Orsini, Francesca; Schofield, Katherine Butler (eds.). "Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India, I. Between Texts and Practices, 1. The Example in Dadupanthi Homiletics". Open Book Publishers. doi:10.11647/OBP.0062.01. Retrieved 8 May 2026.

[:0-1] Fenech, Louis E. (2020). "The Image of Guru Nanak in Dadu-Panthi Sources". Religions. 11 (10): 518. doi:10.3390/rel11100518.

[:4-2] Zapart, Jarosław (16 May 2022). "The Ideology of Patronage and the Question of Identity in the Early Dādūpanth". Religions. 13 (5): 17. doi:10.3390/rel13050447.

[:1-3] Zapart, Jarosław (16 May 2022). "The Ideology of Patronage and the Question of Identity in the Early Dādūpanth". Religions. 13 (5): 4–5. doi:10.3390/rel13050447.

[4] Monika Horstmann. "Dādū Dayāl". Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism Online. doi:10.1163/2212-5019_beh_COM_9000000105.

[5] Horstmann, Monika (5 October 2015). Orsini, Francesca; Schofield, Katherine Butler (eds.). "Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India, I. Between Texts and Practices, 1. The Example in Dadupanthi Homiletics". Open Book Publishers. doi:10.11647/OBP.0062.01. Retrieved 8 May 2026.

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