RELIGIOUS FIGURE

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

1896 - 1977

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Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (IAST: Abhaya Caraṇāravinda Bhaktivedānta Svāmī Prabhupāda; Bengali: অভয় চরণারবিন্দ ভক্তিবেদান্ত স্বামী প্রভুপাদ) (1 September 1896 – 14 November 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 3,179,122 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is the 1,096th most popular religious figure (up from 1,106th in 2019), the 190th most popular biography from India (down from 174th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ranks 1,096 out of 3,187. Before him are Abu Darda, Aqil ibn Abi Talib, Alexander Schmorell, Mark of Ephesus, Jeanne Guyon, and John IV of Constantinople. After him are Isaac in Islam, Pope Pontian, Ibn Qudamah, Jakob Ammann, Khabbab ibn al-Aratt, and Alois Hudal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ranks 69. Before him are Jimmy Doolittle, Otto Hofmann, Aleksei Antonov, Julien Duvivier, Ville Ritola, and Karl August Wittfogel. After him are Michael Balint, Tadj ol-Molouk, Agustín Muñoz Grandes, Heo Jeong, Henri de Lubac, and Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff. Among people deceased in 1977, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ranks 53. Before him are Sepp Herberger, Stephen Boyd, Jan Patočka, Leopold Stokowski, Princess Margaretha of Sweden, and Bruno Streckenbach. After him are Paul Desmond, Hamida Djandoubi, Marc Bolan, John Dickson Carr, Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani, and Carlos Pace.

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In India

Among people born in India, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ranks 190 out of 1,861. Before him are Ahilyabai Holkar (1725), Kamala Sohonie (1912), Anthony de Mello (1931), Narayana Guru (1855), Kishore Kumar (1929), and George Alencherry (1945). After him are B. K. S. Iyengar (1918), Shilpa Shetty (1975), M. Visvesvaraya (1861), Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621), Amrish Puri (1932), and Hema Malini (1948).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ranks 21. Before him are Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918), Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856), Guru Arjan (1563), Jayadeva (1170), Anthony de Mello (1931), and George Alencherry (1945). After him are Guru Angad (1504), Parshvanatha (-872), Śāntarakṣita (725), Dashrath Manjhi (1934), Meher Baba (1894), and Anandi Gopal Joshi (1865).

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