YugMap Bharat, artharth India

Personalities

Saints, scholars, poets, scientists, reformers, freedom fighters, travellers and commanders who shaped the history of Bharat. Rulers are listed on each polity's page.

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6th century BCE33 personalities by century — click a bar to jump there20th century CE

6th century BCE · 2

Vardhamana Mahavira
Saint / religious leader · c. 599–527 BCE
24th Tirthankara of Jainism
 Gautama Buddha
Saint / religious leader · c. 563–483 BCE
Founder of Buddhism

3rd century BCE · 2

Mahinda (Thera)
Saint / religious leader · active c. 250 BCE
Ashoka's son who took Buddhism to Sri Lanka
 Sanghamitta
Saint / religious leader · active c. 240 BCE
Brought a sapling of the Bodhi tree to Sri Lanka

2nd century BCE · 1

Nagasena
Saint / religious leader · active c. 150 BCE
Buddhist monk whose dialogue with King Menander forms the Milindapanha

5th century CE · 1

Bodhidharma
Saint / religious leader · active c. 500 CE
Indian monk credited with founding Chan (Zen) Buddhism in China

7th century CE · 1

Appar (Tirunavukkarasar)
Saint / religious leader · active c. 620 CE
Nayanar saint who converted Mahendravarman I to Shaivism

8th century CE · 2

Padmasambhava
Saint / religious leader · active c. 770 CE
Guru Rinpoche, who brought Vajrayana Buddhism to Tibet and Bhutan
 Andal
Saint / religious leader · active c. 800 CE
The only woman among the twelve Alvars; composed the Tiruppavai

11th century CE · 1

Atisha Dipankara
Saint / religious leader · 982 CE – 1054
Vikramashila scholar who revived Buddhism in Tibet

12th century CE · 1

Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti
Saint / religious leader · c. 1141 – c. 1236
Sufi saint who established the Chishti order in India at Ajmer

13th century CE · 3

Nizamuddin Auliya
Saint / religious leader · 1238 – 1325
Chishti Sufi saint of Delhi
 Namdev
Saint / religious leader · c. 1270 – c. 1350
Marathi saint of the Varkari tradition
 Dnyaneshwar
Saint / religious leader · c. 1275 – c. 1296
Author of the Dnyaneshwari, a Marathi commentary on the Gita

14th century CE · 3

Vidyaranya
Saint / religious leader · active c. 1340
Sage traditionally linked to the founding of Vijayanagara
 Lal Ded (Lalleshwari)
Saint / religious leader · c. 1320 – c. 1392
Kashmiri mystic poet of the vakhs
 Nund Rishi (Sheikh Nooruddin)
Saint / religious leader · 1377 – 1438
Kashmiri Sufi saint of the Rishi order

15th century CE · 4

Kabir
Saint / religious leader · c. 1440 – c. 1518
Bhakti poet-saint of Varanasi known for his dohas
 Srimanta Sankardev
Saint / religious leader · c. 1449 – c. 1568
Assamese saint who founded Ekasarana Dharma and the sattras
 Guru Nanak
Saint / religious leader · 1469 – 1539
Founder of Sikhism and the first Sikh Guru
 Guru Ravidas
Saint / religious leader · active c. 1500
Bhakti saint whose hymns appear in the Guru Granth Sahib

16th century CE · 5

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Saint / religious leader · 1486 – 1534
Bhakti saint of Bengal who inspired Gaudiya Vaishnavism
 Mirabai
Saint / religious leader · c. 1498 – c. 1547
Rajput princess and Bhakti poet devoted to Krishna
 Guru Angad
Saint / religious leader · 1504 – 1552
Second Sikh Guru who standardised the Gurmukhi script
 Francis Xavier
Saint / religious leader · 1506 – 1552
Jesuit missionary whose remains lie in Goa
 Guru Arjan Dev
Saint / religious leader · 1563 – 1606
Fifth Sikh Guru who compiled the Adi Granth

17th century CE · 4

Samarth Ramdas
Saint / religious leader · 1608 – 1681
Saint who wrote the Dasbodh
 Sant Tukaram
Saint / religious leader · c. 1608 – c. 1650
Marathi Varkari saint-poet of the abhangas
 Guru Tegh Bahadur
Saint / religious leader · 1621 – 1675
Ninth Sikh Guru executed in Delhi in 1675
 Guru Gobind Singh
Saint / religious leader · 1666 – 1708
Tenth Sikh Guru who founded the Khalsa

19th century CE · 2

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Saint / religious leader · 1836 – 1886
Mystic of Dakshineswar and guru of Vivekananda
 Swami Vivekananda
Saint / religious leader · 1863 – 1902
Addressed the Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893

20th century CE · 1

Mother Teresa
Saint / religious leader · 1910 – 1997
Nobel Peace laureate who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata