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PHILOSOPHER

Sivananda Saraswati

1887 - 1963

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Sivananda Saraswati (or Swami Sivananda; IAST: Svāmī Śivānanda Sarasvatī; 8 September 1887 – 14 July 1963) was a yoga guru, a Hindu spiritual teacher, and a proponent of Vedanta. Sivananda was born in Pattamadai, in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu, and was named Kuppuswami. He studied medicine and served in British Malaya as a physician for several years before taking up monasticism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sivananda Saraswati has received more than 1,182,664 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Sivananda Saraswati is the 546th most popular philosopher (up from 597th in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from India (down from 168th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Indian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Sivananda Saraswati ranks 546 out of 1,081Before him are Eugen Fink, Sergei Bulgakov, Nicos Poulantzas, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Usman dan Fodio, and Arne Næss. After him are Chandrakirti, Ivan Ilyin, Gianni Vattimo, Eduard Spranger, Bernardino Telesio, and Metrodorus of Lampsacus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Sivananda Saraswati ranks 79Before him are Marcus Garvey, Josef Čapek, Giovanni Gronchi, Vasily Chapayev, Leonard Bloomfield, and George, Crown Prince of Serbia. After him are Joseph Bech, Tetsu Katayama, Wilhelm Kube, François Faber, Roscoe Arbuckle, and Mario Roatta. Among people deceased in 1963, Sivananda Saraswati ranks 44Before him are Piero Manzoni, William Beveridge, Alois Hudal, Princess Alexandra of Hanover, William Carlos Williams, and W. E. B. Du Bois. After him are Eduard Spranger, Karl von Terzaghi, Remedios Varo, Sylvanus Olympio, Adrian Carton de Wiart, and Jacobus Oud.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sivananda Saraswati ranks 173 out of 1,493Before him are Vikramaditya (-102), Siraj ud-Daulah (1733), Morarji Desai (1896), Kuvempu (1904), Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1703), and Ram Narayan (1927). After him are Chandrakirti (600), Pushyamitra Shunga (-300), Tarabai (1675), A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896), Andal (800), and Guru Arjan (1563).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Sivananda Saraswati ranks 26Before him are Ravidas (1450), Madhvacharya (1199), Abul A'la Maududi (1903), Shantideva (685), Ahmad Sirhindi (1564), and Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1703). After him are Chandrakirti (600), Narayana Guru (1855), Dignāga (480), Eknath (1533), Thiruvalluvar (350), and Hemachandra (1089).