Dhananjay Das Kathiababa
Swami Dhananjoy Das Kathiababa Gurudev | |
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ধনঞ্জয় দাস কাঠিয়াবাবা | |
| File:ধনঞ্জয় দাস কাঠিয়াবাবা.jpg Shri Shri Dhananjoy Das Kathiababa Maharaj | |
| Title | Guru Nimbark Acharya 57th |
| Personal | |
| Born | Dhirendra Mohan Das 1308 Bankura district, West India. |
| Died | 1390 |
| Religion | Hindu, Nimbark Vaishnavism |
| Nationality | India |
| Sect | Nimbark Vaishnavism |
| Senior posting | |
| Guru | Santadas Kathiababa |
| Predecessor | Nimbarkacharya |
| Successor | Rashbehari Das Kathiababa |
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Dhananjay Das Kathiababa (Bengali: ধনঞ্জয় দাস কাঠিয়াবাবা) (1308–1390) was a prominent Bengali saint and head of the Nimbark community of ashrams and monasteries. He is the founder of Swami Dhananjoy Das Kathiababa Mahavidyalaya.
Biography
Dhananjay Das was born in Bankura district. His birth name was Dhirendra Mohan Das. His father, Purna Chandra Chakraborty, and mother, Khudu Mani Devi, had four sons. At the age of about five, he was found dead in the verandah of Radha Madhabji's temple. He received a secondary school education and later an MA degree from Medinipur Sanskrit College. He then went to Navadvipa to study and passed the Yugdha Grammar Middle and Poetry Preliminary Examination. After the death of his Dikshaguru, Santdas Babaji, he became the head of the ashram and the monastery. He was the second Bengali Mohant of the Nimbark community. He was their 57th guru. He established many ashrams, Sanskrit schools, high schools, and a college in northeastern India and in Vrindavan. He wrote several scriptures in Sanskrit and Bengali. Swami Dhananjay Das Kathiababa College was established in 2009 in the village of Bhara, where he was born.
Extra link
- Santadas Kathiababa
- Nimbarka Sampraday
- Kathiababa
- Swami Dhananjay Das kathiababa Mahavidyalaya
References
- Swami Dhananjoy Das Kathiababa Mahavidyalaya
- Bishnupur subdivision
- Nimbarkcharya
- Kathia Baba
- Universities and colleges of West Bengal
- Bishnupur, Bankura (community development block)
- Pakrashi, Chittaranjan. Bengali of Delhi. Creation Publications. ISBN 978-1-943438-24-2.
↑ Volume I, Subodh Chandra Sengupta and Anjali Basu (2002). Parliament is a Bengali character. Kolkata: Sahitya Sangsad. Page 228.
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