Mirabai is generally understood to have lived in the late fifteenth to the mid‑sixteenth century, with most traditional estimates placing her life roughly between 1498 and 1547 CE. This timeframe situates her at a pivotal moment in the evolution of the bhakti movement in North India, when devotional currents were reshaping religious life and poetic expression. Within this span, her presence is felt less as a fixed historical datum and more as a living current of devotion that continues to flow through her songs and legends.

To speak of Mirabai’s dates is therefore to gesture toward a historical frame—late fifteenth to mid‑sixteenth century—within which her devotional voice arose and took form. The approximate dates 1498–1547 serve not only as chronological markers but also as a reminder that her life unfolded in an era of intense spiritual ferment and poetic creativity. In that sense, her historical period becomes a backdrop against which her unwavering devotion to Krishna, expressed in song and verse, can be more deeply appreciated by those who seek to understand the bhakti tradition in its lived, historical context.