RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Swaminarayan

1781 - 1830

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Swaminarayan (IAST: Svāmīnārāyaṇa; 3 April 1781 – 1 June 1830), also known as Sahajanand Swami, was a yogi and ascetic believed by followers to be a manifestation of Krishna or the highest manifestation of Purushottama, around whom the Swaminarayan Sampradaya developed. In 1800, he was initiated into the Uddhava sampradaya by his guru, Swami Ramanand, and was given the name Sahajanand Swami. Despite opposition, in 1802, Ramanand handed over the leadership of the Uddhava Sampradaya to him before his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Swaminarayan has received more than 2,886,840 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Swaminarayan is the 1,459th most popular religious figure (up from 1,855th in 2019), the 268th most popular biography from India (up from 367th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Swaminarayan ranks 1,459 out of 3,187. Before him are Alphonsus Rodriguez, Hōnen, Modestus of Jerusalem, Beniamino Stella, Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, and Urbain Grandier. After him are Qadi Iyad, Kaundinya, Germanus of Auxerre, Fructuosus, Bernard of Menthon, and Aelius Gallus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, Swaminarayan ranks 22. Before him are Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Mauro Giuliani, Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este, Johann Baptist von Spix, and Andrés Bello. After him are Adolphe Marbot, Friedrich von Berchtold, George Ord, Valentín Gómez Farías, Louis-Mathieu Molé, and John Walker. Among people deceased in 1830, Swaminarayan ranks 20. Before him are Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden, Petar I Petrović-Njegoš, Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Dominique Vandamme. After him are Pierre Rode, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Elizabeth Monroe, Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Marcos Portugal, and William Hazlitt.

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In India

Among people born in India, Swaminarayan ranks 268 out of 1,861. Before him are Mahinda (-285), Akbar II (1760), Salim Ali (1896), D. R. Bendre (1896), M. Night Shyamalan (1970), and Sridevi (1963). After him are Merle Oberon (1911), Tilopa (928), Baji Rao I (1700), Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918), C. N. Annadurai (1909), and Dhirubhai Ambani (1932).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Swaminarayan ranks 31. Before him are Dashrath Manjhi (1934), Meher Baba (1894), Anandi Gopal Joshi (1865), Guru Amar Das (1479), Zakir Naik (1965), and Mahinda (-285). After him are Tilopa (928), Inayat Khan (1882), Telesphore Toppo (1939), Abbé Faria (1756), Nirmala Srivastava (1923), and Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855).

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