A History of the Mahrattas v1.c5.s4.33

v1.c5.s4.33

To Tukārām a number of minor poets owed their inspiration, among them being Rāmēshvar Bhat, Sēna Nhāvī, Narāyan Bava, Kanhoba, Prēma Bāī and two Muhammadans, Sheikh Muhammad and Sheikh Sultān. The traditional story of his life, and the popular legends which have grown around his name, are enshrined in two later works, the *Bhakti Līlāmrita* and the *Bhakti Vijāya*, of which the former was composed by Mahīpati in 1774. In this work Dr. Murray Mitchell professed to discern traces of the influence of Christian thought and ideas, and suggests that Tukārām’s biographer may have been acquainted with Father Guimaraens’ Purān on the Life of Christ, which was written in the Konkani dialect of Marāthī and published in Lisbon in 1659.¹