Dnyaneshwar writes the Dnyaneshwari

According to hagiographic tradition, Dnyaneshwar was born in 1275 near Paithan into a Brahmin family that the community had excommunicated because his father, having become a renunciant, returned to household life; he, his brothers Nivruttinath and Sopan and his sister Muktabai all became revered poet-saints. He composed the Dnyaneshwari at about sixteen in a temple at Nevasa on the Pravara river, and his words were written down by the scribe Sachchidananda. The date 1290 (Shaka 1212) rests on the year given in the text, the name of the scribe and the mention of the reigning Yadava king Ramadeva (Ramachandra). In about 9,000 verses the work explains the Gita to listeners who knew no Sanskrit.

Dnyaneshwar also wrote the Amrutanubhav and devotional songs; according to tradition, in 1296 he entered samadhi at Alandi near Pune. The text was handed down in many copies; in the late 16th century the poet-saint Eknath, having gathered hundreds of manuscripts, prepared a corrected text, saying that he had restored the original wording.