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A portrait of Swami Dayananda Saraswati in a turban and shawl, with his name in Hindi and his years 1824-1883, on a 15 naye paise stamp.
Swami Dayananda Saraswati
India Post issued this stamp on 4 March 1962 for Swami Dayananda Saraswati, the founder of the Arya Samaj. Born at Tankara in Kathiawar in 1824, he left home as a young man in search of truth and spent years as a wandering ascetic before studying the Vedas under the blind scholar Virjanand at Mathura. Calling Hindus back to the Vedas, he spoke out against idol worship, caste by birth, child marriage and the neglect of women’s education, and for the remarriage of widows. In 1875 he founded the Arya Samaj in Bombay and wrote his chief work, the Satyarth Prakash. He died at Ajmer in 1883; the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic schools and colleges founded in his memory spread across northern India.
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