Mirabai is one of the most important mystic poets of the Bhakti movement of mediaeval India. The movement began in South India through the poems and teachings of the Vaishnava Alvars and Shaiva Nayanars in the 6th century CE, before spreading northwards, reaching its zenith between the 15th and 17th centuries CE.
Mira was a Rajput princess born around 1498 in Kudki, Rajasthan. The only child of Ratan Singh, the younger brother of the ruler of Merta, she was given the education customary for a royal descendant, which included music, ancient Indian scriptures and training in skills essential in warfare. From the early years, she was fascinated with Krishna, having learnt about him from her mother. Seeing the way a travelling priest worshipped his Krishna idol, as if Krishna was really present in the idol, she insisted on getting the idol for herself, and the priest, who initially refused, finally relented and gave his precious possession to her. Mira began to worship the idol as her divine lover and husband.
Against her wish, Mira was married to Bhoj Raj, the crown prince of Mewar, Rajasthan, and son of Rana Sanga, in 1516. It was in accordance with the practice of forming a coalition of kingdoms through matrimonial ties against a common enemy (in this instance the enemy was, Babur, who became the first Mughal emperor). Mira never accepted Bhoj Raj as her husband, focusing solely on Krishna, leading to conflict with some of her in-laws. Her husband and father-in-law (Rana Sanga) sympathised with her, and she was allowed to have her own Krishna temple in the palace. Her husband died in 1521 from wounds in a war with the Delhi Sultanate years earlier. Her own father and father-in-law also died after being defeated in the Battle of Khanwa against Babur in 1527.
Mira was something of a rebel and did not fit the established pattern for a Rajput princess and widow. She spent most of her days in her temple, receiving sadhus and pilgrims from throughout India and composing songs of devotion. At least two attempts made on her life are alluded to in her poems. Once a poisonous snake was sent to her in a basket of flowers, and in the other she was given a poisoned drink.
Due to the palace hostility, finally, Mira left Mewar and returned to Merta, but finding that her way of being was not acceptable there either, she set out on a series of pilgrimages (presumably in Braj), eventually settling in Dwarka. In the vicinity of the present Dwarka in Gujarat existed a kingdom by that name ruled by Krishna about 5000 years ago but went under the sea later.
When Mira was 49, in 1547, then ruler of Mewar, Udai Singh II (the last son of Rana Sanga to rule Mewar, founded Udaipur), sent a delegation of priests to bring her back. Reluctant, Mira asked permission to spend the night at a temple of Krishna in Dwarka, but the next morning and thereafter, she wasn't found there or anywhere else. One theory is that she slipped away to spend the rest of her years wandering in disguise.
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