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Narsinh Mehta, revered as the Adi Kavi (First Poet) of Gujarati literature, was a 15th-century poet-saint whose devotional verses defined the bhakti tradition in Gujarat. Born into a Nagar Brahmin family in Junagadh, his life became legend — stories of his unwavering devotion to Krishna, his defiance of caste conventions, and his miraculous encounters became inseparable from his poetry. His most famous work, Vaishnav Jan To, became Mahatma Gandhi’s favourite hymn and an anthem of the Indian independence movement five centuries after it was written.