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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. According to the Swaminarayan tradition, Sahajanand Swami became known as Swaminarayan, and the Uddhava Sampradaya became known as the Swaminarayan Sampradaya, after a gathering in which he taught the Swaminarayan Mantra to his followers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Swaminarayan is the 1,943rd most popular religious figure (down from 1,459th in 2019), the 374th most popular biography from India (down from 268th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Swaminarayan ranks 1,943 out of 3,187. Before him are Érard de la Marck, Carlo Caffarra, Count Palatine Francis Louis of Neuburg, Tlacaelel, Moses Isserles, and Alessandro Albani. After him are Simon Kimbangu, Francesco Coccopalmerio, Babylas of Antioch, Fadl ibn Abbas, Hans Hermann Groër, and Luis Héctor Villalba.

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Among people born in 1781, Swaminarayan ranks 28. Before him are Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este, Louis-Mathieu Molé, François Habeneck, Andrés Bello, Adolphe Marbot, and Valentín Gómez Farías. After him are Christian von Steven, George Dawe, Henri Cassini, Johann Friedrich Meckel, José de Madrazo y Agudo, and William John Burchell. Among people deceased in 1830, Swaminarayan ranks 22. Before him are Petar I Petrović-Njegoš, Dominique Vandamme, Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, and Elizabeth Monroe. After him are Pierre Rode, Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg, Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Ignaz Schuppanzigh, Marcos Portugal, and Jan Śniadecki.

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In India

Among people born in India, Swaminarayan ranks 374 out of 1,861. Before him are Prakash Raj (1965), Rajnath Singh (1951), Nagarjuna (1959), Merle Oberon (1911), Anna Hazare (1937), and Kumārila Bhaṭṭa (700). After him are Feroze Gandhi (1912), Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913), Khudiram Bose (1889), Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (1864), Shakuntala Devi (1929), and Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Swaminarayan ranks 43. Before him are Inayat Khan (1882), Wahiduddin Khan (1925), Ivan Dias (1936), Varkey Vithayathil (1927), Anandi Gopal Joshi (1865), and Joseph Vaz (1651). After him are Filipe Neri Ferrão (1953), Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy (1924), Nirmala Srivastava (1923), Rukhmabai (1864), Oswald Gracias (1944), and Telesphore Toppo (1939).

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