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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 366,924 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati is the 1,199th most popular philosopher (down from 1,111th in 2019), the 729th most popular biography from India (down from 606th in 2019) and the 46th most popular Indian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati ranks 1,199 out of 1,267. Before him are Stanley Jaki, William Alston, Sara Danius, James Burnham, Ernest Belfort Bax, and Alexander Berzin. After him are Nick Bostrom, Susan Haack, R. C. Sproul, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Alexander Tarasov, and Patricia Hill Collins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati ranks 218. Before him are Henry Kolker, Cathal Brugha, Aleksander Prystor, Charles R. Knight, Owen D. Young, and Victor Sonnemans. After him are Ivan Moskvin, Harold Kitson, Gheorghe Mironescu, Georges Trombert, Ottó Hellmich, and Manuel María Ponce Brousset. Among people deceased in 1937, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati ranks 165. Before him are Anastasios Metaxas, Charles Homer Haskins, Antônio Parreiras, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Harry Vardon, and Gyula Juhász. After him are Cécile Tormay, Marie Prevost, Béla von Kehrling, Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson, Jorge de Paiva, and Harold Hackett.

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In India

Among people born in India, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati ranks 729 out of 1,861. Before him are Nirmala Sitharaman (1959), Peter Sarstedt (1941), John Abraham (1972), S. M. Krishna (1932), Usha Mehta (1920), and Arunachalam Muruganantham (1961). After him are Sharman Joshi (1979), Charles Sturt (1795), Muiz ud din Bahram (null), Anna Chandy (1905), Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan (1905), and Radhanath Sikdar (1813).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati ranks 46. Before him are Debendranath Tagore (1817), Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888), Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1921), Keshub Chandra Sen (1838), Derek Prince (1915), and Homi K. Bhabha (1949). After him are Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916).

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