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Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati

1874 - 1937

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Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (IAST: Bhakti-siddhānta Sarasvatī; Bengali: ভক্তিসিদ্ধান্ত সরস্বতী; Bengali: [bʱɔktisiddʱanto ʃɔrɔʃbɔti] ; 6 February 1874 – 1 January 1937), born Bimala Prasad Datt (Bimalā Prasāda Datta, Bengali: [bimola prɔʃɑd dɔtto]), was an Indian Gaudīya Vaisnava Hindu guru (spiritual master), ācārya (philosophy instructor), and revivalist in early twentieth-century India. To his followers, he was known as Srila Prabhupāda (an honorific also later extended to his disciple A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada). Bimala Prasad was born in 1874 in Puri (then Bengal Presidency, now Orissa) in a Bengali Hindu Kayastha family as a son of Kedarnath Datta Bhaktivinoda Thakur, a recognised Bengali Gaudiya Vaishnava philosopher and teacher. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati has received more than 335,802 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati is the 1,111th most popular philosopher, the 610th most popular biography from India and the 44th most popular Indian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati ranks 1,111 out of 1,081. Before him are Michael Hardt, Stanley Jaki, Max Black, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Vicente Ferreira da Silva, and Edward Abramowski. After him are Ruth Barcan Marcus, Volker Zotz, Ryan White, Mary Whiton Calkins, William Ames, and Alexander Berzin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati ranks 183. Before him are Charles A. Beard, Frank Knox, Joseph Olivier, Auguste Giroux, James Juvenal, and Conrad Magnusson. After him are Hermann Wilker, Harold Kitson, Henri Deloge, Hjalmar Johansson, Grantley Goulding, and François Brandt. Among people deceased in 1937, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati ranks 148. Before him are R. J. Mitchell, William Gillette, Nygmet Nurmakov, Gyula Juhász, Harry Vardon, and Cécile Tormay. After him are Grafton Elliot Smith, Jorge de Paiva, Howie Morenz, Marie Prevost, Ruth Roland, and John T. Dillon.

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In India

Among people born in India, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati ranks 610 out of 1,493. Before him are Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947), Randhir Kapoor (1947), Ismat Chughtai (1915), Vijay Amritraj (1953), Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948), and C. R. Rao (1920). After him are Nirmala Joshi (1934), B. V. Doshi (1927), Jeannette Altwegg (1930), Saeed Jaffrey (1929), Uttam Kumar (1926), and Shabana Azmi (1950).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati ranks 44. Before him are Kumārila Bhaṭṭa (700), Vallabha (1479), Jaimini (-390), Derek Prince (1915), Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888), and Ramananda (1400). After him are Rambhadracharya (1950) and Homi K. Bhabha (1949).

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