Odhavram
Hindu saint (1889–1957)
Odhavram (4 October 1889 – 13 January 1957) was an Indian religious teacher. He championed Gurukula education to improve the situation of the poor.
Early life
Odhavram was born in Jakhau, a small village located on the west coast of Gujarat, India, in the district of Kutch. He was born in an agrarian Bhanushali family in 1889 on the festival of Ram Navami, an auspicious day in the Hindu calendar.
He was named Udhav. As a child, he showed interest in religious texts. He loved music and singing traditional Indian poems known as Bhajans. When he was 9 years old he studied under Guru Shanakaranand from Mandvi, Kutch. He learned Sanskrit and the Vedas and often took the Bhagavad Gita to school to narrate single lines to his friends. He liked to discuss the Gita with pandits and scholars of Hindu law, philosophy and music.
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