Mula Sant
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Baba Mula Sant was a 16th-century Vaishnav saint from Wazirabad (Pakistan).
Baba Mula Sant | |
|---|---|
| Personal | |
| Born | Early 16th century |
| Died | unknown date |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| Sect | Vaishnavism (deity Rama) |
| Known for | Founder of Mula-Santie sect |
| Religious career | |
| Successor | Gosain Haridas |
| Website | www |
BiographyEdit
Early lifeEdit
Mula Sant was born in the beginning of the 16th century, in a Gaur Brahmin family of Wazirabad, Pakistan.[1]
Later lifeEdit
Mula Sant quarrelled with his caste fellows in Wazirabad, and emigrated to a village called Suleman/Sulaiman in the Chiniot tehsil of Jhang. He was advised by Sayyid Jamal Shah and Baba Jinda Sahib to visit the shrine of Badrinarain; and at Badrinarain he was ordered by the oracle to marry an Arora woman. He complied, which gave birth to an child named Haridas and it was only in consequence of Haridas's wonderful miracles that condoned the matter of this irregular union.[1]
Influence and legacyEdit
The Tenets of Mula Sant were Vaishnavs, and he is said to have spent 12 years worshipping in a hole which he had dug. His son Gosain Haridas succeeded to his position at Sulaiman, and his tomb was an object of great reverence among the Aroras who attended in large numbers to shave their chidren's heads in honour of the saint. Fairs were held here in April and September before 1947. The Mula-Santies (followers of Mula Sant) were mainly found in Jhang, Shahpur and Gujranwala in West Punjab before 1947; they abstained from meat and wine, revered Ram and worshiped no idols but merely the saligram. They were chiefly Aroras and made pilgrimages to his tomb at Suleman/Sulaiman.[1]
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Rose, Horace Arthur (1911). A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province Vol. 1. Civil and Military Gazette Press. p. 390.