About this stamp
The Blind Scholar-Saint
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 19 December 2018 for Gulabrao Maharaj (1881–1915), the saint and scholar from Vidarbha. Gulab Gonduji Mohod was born on 6 July 1881 at Madhan near Amravati to Gonduji and Alokabai Mohod. He lost his sight at nine months after being given the wrong medicine, and his mother died when he was four; he was brought up by his grandmother at Loni Takli.
Pradnyachakshu
Though blind and without schooling, he mastered Vedanta and many other subjects, and was called Pradnyachakshu, “one who sees through the intellect”. He wrote about 133 books, more than 6,000 pages, 130 commentaries and some 25,000 verses in Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi, Braj and Varhadi, on Vedanta, Sankhya, Nyaya, yoga, Ayurveda, music and drama; at 21 he wrote a commentary on Darwin and Spencer. Comparing Indian and Western thought, he put forward a theory of reconciliation between religions, and is also called Dharma Samanvaya Maharshi. He died on 20 September 1915, aged 34.
On the Stamp
Gulabrao Maharaj seated cross-legged, against a red background. It was designed by Gulistaan; 300,000 were printed by wet offset at the Security Printing Press, Hyderabad.
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