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Sivananda Saraswati

1887 - 1963

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Swami Sivananda Saraswati (IAST: Svāmī Śivānanda Sarasvatī; 8 September 1887 – 14 July 1963), also called Swami Sivananda, was a yoga guru, a Hindu spiritual teacher, and a proponent of Vedanta. Sivananda was born in Pattamadai, in the Tirunelveli district of modern Tamil Nadu, and was named Kuppuswami. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sivananda Saraswati has received more than 1,290,689 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Sivananda Saraswati is the 491st most popular philosopher (up from 546th in 2019), the 168th most popular biography from India (up from 170th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Indian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Sivananda Saraswati ranks 491 out of 1,267. Before him are Norberto Bobbio, Hegesias of Cyrene, Themistius, Ibn al-Rawandi, Anaxarchus, and Murray Bookchin. After him are Carl Stumpf, Karl-Otto Apel, Pierre Duhem, Gorakhnath, Antiochus of Ascalon, and Hermann Lotze.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Sivananda Saraswati ranks 65. Before him are Blaise Cendrars, Josef Harpe, Frederick Fleet, Joseph Bech, Mamoru Shigemitsu, and Josef Čapek. After him are Marcus Garvey, Conrad Hilton, Savielly Tartakower, Georg Heym, Hermine Reuss of Greiz, and René Spitz. Among people deceased in 1963, Sivananda Saraswati ranks 39. Before him are Richard Barthelmess, Karl Bühler, Georg-Hans Reinhardt, Pedro Armendáriz, Michael Rockefeller, and Piero Manzoni. After him are Eduard Spranger, Sylvanus Olympio, Gustave Garrigou, Alois Hudal, Remedios Varo, and William Beveridge.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sivananda Saraswati ranks 168 out of 1,861. Before him are Zakir Husain (1897), Jyotirao Phule (1827), Madhvacharya (1199), Vikramaditya (-102), Birsa Munda (1875), and Mamnoon Hussain (1940). After him are Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856), Kittur Chennamma (1778), Lala Lajpat Rai (1865), Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551), Shantideva (685), and Abdul Karim (1863).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Sivananda Saraswati ranks 23. Before him are Buddhaghosa (401), Abul A'la Maududi (1903), Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883), Ravidas (1450), Jyotirao Phule (1827), and Madhvacharya (1199). After him are Shantideva (685), Narayana Guru (1855), Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1703), Thiruvalluvar (350), Dignāga (480), and Chandrakirti (600).

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