Jangali Maharaj also known as Sadguru Jangali Maharaj or Guru Maharaj, was a Maharashtrian

Maharashtra

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 saint who lived in Pune

Pune

Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...

, India

India

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, in the late 18th Century. "Jungle" (Jangali) "King" (Maharaj) is an eponym of Shiva

Shiva

Shiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a...

. A major commercial road in Pune (Jangali Maharaj Road) is named after him.

It is believed that he was born in the state of Baroda (Vadodara

Vadodara

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 of present day Gujarat) in the early 18th Century. Very little is know about his early life other than that he was an athlete and participated in the Indian Rebellion of 1857

Indian Rebellion of 1857

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to...

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