Rang Avadhoot, born Pandurang Vitthalapant Valame, was a mystic saint-poet belonging to Datta-panth of Hinduism.
19 Facts About Rang Avadhoot
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Rang Avadhoot was a social worker and independence activist before accepting asceticism.
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Rang Avadhoot is credited with the expansion of Datta-panth in Gujarat state of India.
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Rang Avadhoot has written more than 45 works, mostly concerning spirituality and devotion.
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Rang Avadhoot was born Pandurang Vitthalapant Valame on 21 November 1898 in Godhra in a Marathi family of Vitthalpant Jairam Valame and Rukmini.
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Rang Avadhoot's family belonged to Devle village.
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Rang Avadhoot's father moved to Godhra as a caretaker of Viththal temple.
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Rang Avadhoot met his spiritual teacher Vasudevanand Saraswati in 1905.
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Rang Avadhoot received his school education in Godhra and matriculated in 1917 from Telang Highschool, Godhra.
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Rang Avadhoot moved to Baroda College in Baroda for the second year.
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Rang Avadhoot briefly worked with Swami Anand at the Navjivan trust.
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Rang Avadhoot later joined the Rashtriya Adarsh Vinaymandir school in Ahmedabad as the teacher of Sanskrit in 1921.
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Rang Avadhoot completed the Narmada Prarikrama in 108 days on foot in 1927.
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Rang Avadhoot died on 19 November 1968 at Haridwar on the bank of the Ganga River.
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Rang Avadhoot played an important role in spreading Datta-panth in Gujarat, India.
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Rang Avadhoot was fluent in Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, English and Sanskrit.
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Rang Avadhoot translated Ernest Howard Crosby's Tolstoy as a Schoolmaster as Tolstoy Ane Shikshan in Gujarati.
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Rang Avadhoot wrote Bhajans collected under the title Avadhooti Anand.
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Rang Avadhoot composed Dattabavani, a 52 stanza poem dedicated to Dattatreya which is popular in Gujarat.