Srila Prabhupada Gallery

1. Oṁ Viṣṇupāda Śrī Śrīmad
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī
Ṭhākura
In childhood (1881)
The appearance site of Śrīla
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī

2. Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura's family (top, far left, Bimalā Prasāda)
Śrīmatī Bhagavatī-devī (the
mother of Śrīla Prabhupad)
Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākur

3. Śrī Bimalā Prasāda Datta in his youth
Śrī Bimalā Prasāda Datta, Śrī Basanta Kumar Ghosh Bhaktyāśrama, Śrī Manindranath Datta
Bhakti Ratna Ṭhākura, Śrī Manmathanath Raya Bhakti Prakāśa, Śrī Khetranath Sarkar Bhakti
Nidhi, Śrī Sītānātha dāsa Mahāpātra Bhakti Tīrtha, Śrī Bipin Bihari Sarkar Bhakti Bhṛṅga
Śrī Bimalā Prasāda Datta in his youth

4. During the period of śata-koṭi-nāma-yajña
In Delhi during the installation of the deity

5. Śrī Bimalā Prasāda Datta

6. 29 March 1918, two days after accepting sannyāsa

7. Outside Bhaktivinoda Āsana, Calcutta
Saṅkīrtana at the site designated for Śrī Mādhva Gauḍīya Maṭha, Dacca

8. Onstage at Calcutta's Albert Hall, 28 July 1929
Oṁ Viṣṇupāda Śrī Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Prabhupāda
is seated to the right of the honorable chairman, Sir Śrī-yukta Dr. Deva
Prasāda Sarvādhikārī (center). To the chairman's left are Maharaja Sir
Maṇīndra-candra Nandī Bāhādura; Rāya Śrī Cunīlāla Basu Bāhādura,
C.I.E.; Mr. B.K. Sen; and others. The devotee who is standing [probably
Śrī Sundarānanda Vidyāvinoda] is delivering a speech. Top, from the
left: Ācārya Śrīpāda Ananta Vāsudeva Paravidyābhūṣaṇa, B.A.; Paṇḍita
Śrī-yukta Haripada Vidyāratna, M.A., B.L.; Śreṣṭhyārya Śrī-yukta
Jagabandhu Bhakti Rañjana; and others.
Śrī Kedarnath Datta in his youth

9. In sannyāsa dress

10. With Śrī-yuta Ponirula Pillai, the donor of
the hall at Madras Gauḍīya Maṭha

11. At the land donated for Śrī Gauḍīya Maṭha. The donor, Śrī Jagabandhu
Prabhu, is seated immediately to the right of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta
Sarasvatī.

12. Outside Śrī Gauḍīya Maṭha, Ultadingi Road, on the occasion of
Śrī Vyāsa-pūjā, 20 February 1927. The spire of the Parśvanātha
temple is in the background.
The groundbreaking function for Śrī Gauḍīya Maṭha, Calcutta (p. 91)

13. Outside the Bhaktivinoda Āsana at Ultadingi Road. Upon a
chariot, Śrīman Mahāprabhu and Śrī Śrī Giridhārī-
Gāndharvikā await going to Their new residence at Bāg-
bazar.

14. Saṅkīrtana during the Gauḍīya Maṭha Festival in Calcutta

15. Saṅkīrtana during the Gauḍīya Maṭha Festival in Calcutta

16. Śrī Gauḍīya Maṭha, Bāg-bazar, Calcutta

17. Welcoming Sir John Anderson, the governor of Bengal,
on his arrival in Māyāpur (p. 109)

18. With the governor in Māyāpur

19. With the governor on Advaita Saraṇī

20. Entering Śrī Caitanya Maṭha with Sir John Anderson
Śrī Kuñja Bihārī Vidyābhūṣaṇa (“booted and suited”)
indicating the Thakur Bhakti Vinode Institute

21. With dignitaries during the governor's visit

22. At a function held in April 1935 on a plot adjoining the newly donated
land for the Mādhva Gauḍīya Maṭha. To Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta
Sarasvatī's immediate right is Mr. E.B.H. Baker, I.C.S., district judge of
Dacca; next is Mr. J.R. Blair, I.C.S., magistrate of Dacca. On the table is a
silver casket containing a congratulatory letter from the citizens of
Dacca.

23. The last Vyāsa-pūjā, at Śrīvāsa Aṅgana, February 1936

24. Arrival at Central Station, Madras, January 1932

25. Reception by Madras Corporation

26. At the foundation-laying ceremony of the Kṛṣṇa-kīrtana Hall in Madras

27. Madras Gauḍīya Maṭha
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28. Śrī Sundarānanda Vidyāvinoda, editor of Gauḍīya; Śrī Haripada
Vidyāratna, superintendent of the Gauḍīya editorial board; Śrī Bhakti
Sāraṅga Gosvāmī, chairman of the Gauḍīya editorial board.
Reciting Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam at Śukatala

29. During the Vyāsa-pūjā of 1935, in Purī

30. Checking a Gauḍīya article at Ekāyana Maṭha
, in Haṁsa-kṣetra, Nadia district

31. Śrīla Sarasvatī Ṭhākura's handwriting. This sample is from the
introduction (written July 1936 in Darjeeling) to his commentary on
Kena Upaniṣad.
Devotees assembled for parikramā of Naimiṣāraṇya cum Nāma-haṭṭa
preaching among the general populace. In the background is Śrī
Paramahaṁsa Maṭha. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī is standing in the
center of the picture. Mounted on one of the elephants are the deities
of Śrī Rādhā-Govinda.

32. Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura's birthplace, Modadruma Chatra,
Modadrumadvīpa
Sat Siksha Pradarsani, Kolkata.

33. The Adhokṣaja deity found at the
Yogapīṭha, Māyāpur

34. Deities of Śrī Śrī Gaura-Viṣṇupriyā at the Yogapīṭha

35. With the Maharaja of Tripura at the inauguration of the new temple
at the Yogapīṭha

36. Vraja-mandala Parikrama

37. At Śrī Jagannātha Gauḍīya Maṭha, Mymensingh

38. Caṭaka Kūṭira, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī's residence at
Śrī Puruṣottama Maṭha
At Śrīpāda Adhokṣaja Sevā Kovida's home, Faizabad

39. Proceeding along the Maṅgala-ghāṭa path toward Ālālanātha. As the
head of Gaura's associates and with a massive saṅkīrtana squadron,
Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī was replicating Mahāprabhu's līlā of
searching for Kṛṣṇa.

40. With Sir Dr. Deva Prasāda Sarvādhikārī (former vice chancellor of
Calcutta University) at Thakur Bhakti Vinode Institute, along with the
staff and students

41. In Bijnor

42. While observing Cātur-māsya at Vrajapattana

43. At Śrī Mādhva Gauḍīya Maṭha during Cātur-māsya

44. At Sārasvata Āsana during Cātur-māsya

45. Observing Puruṣottama-vrata in Mathurā

46. At Sārasvata Śravaṇa-sadana

47. In Saṅket. This was the last photo
taken of Śrīla Sarasvatī Ṭhākura

48. Vajrād api kaṭhorāṇi mṛdūni kusumād api: “Harder than a
thunderbolt, more tender than a flower.”