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Amritsar Pipa was born into a
Rajput royal family at
Gagaron, in the present-day
Jhalawar district of
Rajasthan. He became the king of Gagaraungarh. In one of his works "Sri Vaishnav Dharm Mangalam" he says: According to
Bhaktamal, a Bhakti movement hagiography, his wife, Sita, stayed with him before and after his abdication when he became a wandering monk. The hagiography mentions many episodes of his
sannyasa life, such as one where robbers tried to steal his buffalo that provided milk to his companions. When he stumbled into the robbery in progress, he began helping the robbers and suggested that they should take the calf. The robbers were so touched that they abandoned their ways and became Pipa's disciples. In his later life, Bhagat Pipa, as with several other disciples of Ramananda such as
Kabir and
Dadu Dayal, shifted his devotional worship from
saguni Vishnu avatar (
Dvaita, dualism) to
nirguni (
Advaita, monism) god, that is, from god with attributes to god without attributes. According to the records found with local bards, 52 Rajput chiefs from clans of
Gohil,
Chauhan,
Dahiya,
Chavada,
Dabhi,
Makwana (Jhala),
Rakhecha,
Bhati,
Parmar,
Tanwar,
Solanki, and
Parihar resigned from their titles and offices and gave up alcohol, meat, and violence. Instead, those chiefs dedicated their lives to the teachings of their guru & former king. Pipa's dates of birth and death are unknown, but the traditional genealogy in Bhakti hagiography suggests that he died in 1400 CE. ==Key teachings and influence==