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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