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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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati is the 966th most popular philosopher (up from 1,199th in 2019), the 459th most popular biography from India (up from 729th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Indian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati ranks 966 out of 1,267. Before him are Monimus, Jacques-André Naigeon, David Lewis, Wendy Brown, Northrop Frye, and Rüdiger Safranski. After him are Phaenias of Eresus, Paul Janet, Musaeus of Athens, Ernst von Glasersfeld, Daniel Bensaïd, and Samuel Alexander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati ranks 130. Before him are Amy Lowell, Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar, Leopoldo Lugones, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Georges Lefebvre, and Ludwig Diels. After him are Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Edward Marsh, Mikhail Diterikhs, Dmitry Gulia, Alexander Khatisian, and Fred Niblo. Among people deceased in 1937, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati ranks 106. Before him are Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk, Ahmad Javad, Camillo Berneri, Thubten Choekyi Nyima, 9th Panchen Lama, Movses Silikyan, and Silvestras Žukauskas. After him are Mikhail Diterikhs, Albert Heim, Lyubomir Miletich, Erkki Melartin, Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, and Carlo Rosselli.

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In India

Among people born in India, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati ranks 459 out of 1,861. Before him are Telesphore Toppo (1939), Bismillah Khan (1916), Guru Har Rai (1630), Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905), Bhavabhuti (null), and Madhubala (1933). After him are Chandra Shekhar (1927), Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana (1556), Ravindra Prabhat (1969), Farrukhsiyar (1685), Vikram Sarabhai (1919), and Tina Ambani (1957).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati ranks 42. Before him are Kumārila Bhaṭṭa (700), Jaimini (-390), Debendranath Tagore (1817), Sarada Devi (1853), Keshub Chandra Sen (1838), and Ramananda (1400). After him are Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1921), Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916), Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888), Rambhadracharya (1950), and Derek Prince (1915).

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