Swami paramananda saraswati biography of mahatma

Swami Bhaskarananda Saraswati (1833–1899) was a noted 19th-century sannyasin and saint of Varanasi, India.^[1] He wandered over India for thirteen years before settling in Anandabag near the Durga Mandir, in 1868. A Sanskrit and Vedic scholar turned ascetic of DashanamiDandi sannyasi order, many kings visited him to seek advise, and he also reported be an advisor counsel to Kashi Naresh (Maharaja of Kingdom of Kashi), today his samadhi shrine is situated at Durga Kunda, adjacent to the historic Durga Mandir in Varanasi.^[2]

Biography

Swamiji's pre-monastic name was Matiram Misra.

His Holiness Sri Swami Paramananda Saraswati Maharaj

Born into a Brahmin family in Kanpur district, Uttar Pradesh,^[3] was invested with the sacred thread at the age of eight and was married at the age of twelve. From age eight to seventeen, he was a diligent and most successful student of Sanskrit. A son was born to him at the age of eighteen. By this event he was, in his own opini Saraswati, Swami Paramananda - Astrodienst VINEB