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January 1, 1937

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Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati

1937Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Indian religious leader, founded the Gaudiya Math (born 1874)[†]

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, born Bimala Prasad Datt, was an Indian Gaudīya Vaisnava Hindu guru, ācārya, 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.