Bhagat Dhanna


Dhanna Bhagat was a mystic poet and a Vaishnav devotee whose three hymns are present in Adi Granth.
He was born in the village of dhuwa near tehsil Dooni, in the Tonk district of Rajasthan, India in hindu Dhaliwal Jat family.

Divine powers

There are a number of mystical stories about the divine powers of Dhanna Bhagat. One such states that once he was ploughing his fields, a large number of sanyasis came to him hungry and sought food. Dhanna Bhagat gave them all the seeds he had kept for sowing his fields, and ploughed the fields without sowing seeds. The fields produced no food grains, but gourds. When his Jagirdar came to collect the levy, Dhanna Bhagat offered two gourds. Surprised and insulted, the Jagirdar broke the gourds in anger, only to find that they were full of pearls. Bhakti-saint Meera refers to this story in her poem, "sun lijo binati mori, main sharan gahi prabhu teri".

Popular culture

In 1974, a Punjabi movie called Bhagat Dhanna Jatt, starring Dara Singh, was released.