A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (IAST: Abhaya Caraṇāravinda Bhaktivedānta Svāmī Prabhupāda; Bengali: অভয চরণারৱিন্দ ভক্তিৱেদান্ত স্ৱামী প্রভুপাদ) (1896–1977) was a spiritual, philosophical, and religious teacher from India who spread the Hare Krishna mantra and the teachings of “Krishna consciousness” to the world. Born as Abhay Charan De and later legally named Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami, he is often referred to as “Bhaktivedanta Swami”, "Srila Prabhupada", or simply “Prabhupada”. To carry out an order received in his youth from his spiritual teacher to spread “Krishna consciousness” in English, in his old age, at 69, he journeyed in 1965 from Kolkata to New York City on a cargo ship, taking with him little more than a few trunks of books. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada has received more than 2,950,050 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is the 1,115th most popular religious figure (down from 780th in 2019), the 177th most popular biography from India (down from 109th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is most famous for his translations of the Bhagavad Gita and the Srimad Bhagavatam.