Saturday, January 9, 2016

Dr Bhagavan Das, 1966 - Stamp, First Day Cover


Dr Bhagavan Das (1869-1958), the multi-faceted personality, was awarded Bhārat Ratna in the year 1955 for his outstanding contributions to language, culture, political vision.....

Dr Das was a scholar of of Sanskrit. Title of a few of his works are given below. These are interspersed with profuse quotations. The Praṇava-vāda is in Sanskrit.

1. The Science of Social Organization, or, The Laws of Manu in the Light of Atma Vidyā, Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar, 1910. 

2. The Science of Social organisation, or, The Laws of Manu in the Light of Theosophy, Theosophist Office, Adyar, 1935.  (Rev.)

3. A Concordance Dictionary to the Yoga-sūtras of Patañjali, Kāśī, 1938.

The Praṇava-vāda of Gārgyāyana (Praṇava-vāda is the Sanskrit for "uttering of Praṇava AUM") is a book by Bhagavan Das, published in three volumes in years 1910-1913 by the Theosophical Society, Adyar with notes by Annie Besant. Dās alleges that the work is a "summarised translation" of an otherwise unknown "ancient text" by a sage called Gārgyāyana. Dās states that the text was dictated to him from memory by one Pandit Dhanarāja, a theosophist friend of his who was blind in both eyes and had died before the book's publication. (Courtesy: Wp)

Bharat Ratna Dr Bhagavān Dās was honoured by the P & T Department by issuing a commemorative stamp on 12.1.1969 along with an FDC and a brochure.



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