Ramananda

Ramananda (IAST: Rāmānanda) was a 14th-century Vaishnava devotional poet sant, in the Ganges river region of Northern India. The Hindu tradition recognizes him as the founder of the Ramanandi Sampradaya, the largest monastic Hindu renunciant community in modern times. Ramananda is also known as Jagadguru Ramanandacharya, and revered by his followers to be an incarnation of Hindu god Rama.