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Maharaja Paramhans Ji Shrine

Posted on January 3, 2022 by admin1  875

Context

  • Over 200 Hindu pilgrims from India, the US and the Gulf prayed at the 100-year-old renovated Maharaja Paramhans Ji mandir in northwest Pakistan.

About Maharaja Paramhans Ji

  • Born in 1846 in Chhapra (Bihar).
  • His parents died when he was only five years old, and he was brought up by a Kayastha family.
  • He was also known as Shri Paramhans Swami Advaitanand Ji Maharaj.
  • He attained proficiency in Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu, Arabic and Persian within a very short time. 
  • He did not take interest in worldly affairs and was rather inclined towards a life of asceticism. 
  • Teri became the main centre of Paramhans’s propagation of his faith. 
    • It was here that he founded his Paramhans Advaita sect. 
  • He breathed his last on July 10, 1919, at Teri. 
    • After partition, the main centre of his sect was shifted to Anandpur in Madhya Pradesh.

Source: TH

 
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