- Lived:
- c. 1498, Kudki near Merta, Rajasthan → the Mewar court at Chittor; then the roads — back to Merta, on to Vrindavan, and at last Dwarka in Gujarat, where tradition says she vanished into Krishna's idol in 1547
- Field:
- bhakti devotional poetry — padas, short sung lyrics, carried in Rajasthani, Gujarati and Brajbhāṣā streams; the most famous woman's voice in Indian devotional literature
- The Big Idea:
- A Rajput princess declared herself married to Krishna and treated every earthly claim on her — crown, clan, widowhood, honour — as already void. Then she sang it, and half a continent has been singing with her ever since.
- In their words:
- "Mine is Giridhar, who lifted the mountain — no one else at all." (from her most famous attributed pada; our translation)
- If you remember one thing:
- The court could neither burn Mīrā nor silence her. It is the court that is forgotten; the widow who walked out singing is the one every Indian schoolchild can quote.