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Jnanadeva and the Warkari Movement/Prof. Dr. Fred Dallmayr
Note 8
...And "tradition says that Namadeva and Jnanadeva again met in loving conversation" –
testifying to the immortality of genuine friendship, the companionship of noble and loving hearts.
See Edwards, Dnyaneshwar: The Out-cast Brahmin, pp. 62-67; Bahirat, The Philosophy of
Jnanadeva, pp. 14-15. Namadeva outlived his friend by more than fifty years and devoted to his memory a famous series of poems or abhangas. I am aware that some writers have
raised doubts about the dates of Jnanadeva's life and about his relationship with Namadeva. Again, however, my concern is not with historiography as with symbolic significance.
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