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He was born in the village of dhuwa gurudwara near tehsil Dooni, in the Tonk district of Rajasthan, India in Jat family.
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Dhanna Bhagat
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Max Arthur Macauliffe fixes 1415 as the year of Dhanna"s birth, but his name does not appears in the writings of Kabir or Ravidas. The earliest mention of his name is in Mira Bai"s songs that proclaims how Dhanna grew cereals without sowing seed. He was initiated by Ramananda.
There are a number of myths about the divine powers of Dhanna Bhagat.
One such states that once he was ploughing his fields. Large number of sanyasis came to him and demanded food.
He gave them all the seed kept for sowing, and ploughed the fields without sowing seeds. The fields produced no food grains, but gourds.
When Jagirdar came to collect the levy he offered two gourds.
The Jagirdar broke the gourds and found that they were full of pearls. There is a proverb:
धन्ना जाट का हरिसों हेत, Dhanna Jat ka Harison het,
बिना बीज के निपजा खेत। Bina Beej ke Nopaja khet. Meaning - Dhanna Jat had so much love with God that fields produced foodgrain without seeds.
In 1974, a Punjabi movie called Bhagat Dhanna Jatt, starring Dara Singh, was released.
