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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 2,629,212 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Swaminarayan is the 1,870th most popular religious figure (down from 1,533rd in 2019), the 370th most popular biography from India (down from 307th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Swaminarayan ranks 1,870 out of 2,238. Before him are Péter Erdő, Cosmas of Maiuma, Christoph Bartholomäus Anton Migazzi, Sava II, Joseph Clemens of Bavaria, and Theodorus Lector. After him are Teodolfo Mertel, Wincenty Kadłubek, Antonio Caggiano, Marian Jaworski, Joseph Barsabbas, and Ellen Church.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, Swaminarayan ranks 22. Before him are Mauro Giuliani, Joseph Karl Stieler, Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este, Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, Andrés Bello, and Johann Baptist von Spix. After him are Valentín Gómez Farías, François Habeneck, Louis-Mathieu Molé, Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela, John Walker, and Adolphe Marbot. Among people deceased in 1830, Swaminarayan ranks 23. Before him are Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Pierre Rode, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, and Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg. After him are Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Elizabeth Monroe, Marcos Portugal, Jan Śniadecki, Ignaz Schuppanzigh, and William Hazlitt.

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In India

Among people born in India, Swaminarayan ranks 370 out of 1,493. Before him are Vidya Balan (1979), Ahmad Shah Bahadur (1725), M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916), Mahbub ul Haq (1934), Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904), and Jayant Narlikar (1938). After him are Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892), Girija Prasad Koirala (1924), Ram Manohar Lohia (1910), Bismillah Khan (1916), Surendranath Banerjee (1848), and Kadambini Ganguly (1861).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Swaminarayan ranks 38. Before him are Mahinda (-285), Dashrath Manjhi (1934), Matsyendranatha (901), Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855), Abbé Faria (1756), and Joseph Vaz (1651). After him are Ivan Dias (1936), Guru Har Krishan (1656), Nirmala Srivastava (1923), Prahlad Jani (1929), Saint Alphonsa (1910), and Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1805).

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