He was a mystic poet or poet sants of India, whose literature has greatly influenced the Bhakti as well as Sufi movements of India. According to some sources, he was born to a Hindu Brahmin widow and later adopted by childless Muslim weavers – Niru and Nimma – who found him near Lahara Tala lake, adjacent to the holy city of Varanasi… He is also one of the 99 names of God in Islam.