Mukundraj
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Mukundraj (around 1128 - 1200 CE) was one of the earliest Marathi literary figures.
Scholars do not have unanimity among them about the place where Mukundraj mostly lived. He was probably born at Pauni in Bhandara district. There is a samadhi (monument) of Mukundraj at Ambajogai in the Beed district of Maharashtra Marathwada.
Mukundraj belonged to the Nath sect, and was a follower of the Adi Shankaracharya's Advaita philosophy. He wrote the religious compositions Vivek Sindhu in the owi verse form in Marathi. (around 1188 CE) and Paramamrut.
He is acknowledged as the first Marathi poet.
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