Gossain Ghamandi Gir
Hindu Saivite monk of a Shankara lineage
About Gossain Ghamandi Gir
Gossain Ghamandi Gir is the name of a Hindu Saivite monk of a Shankara lineage who is said to have founded a Saivite monastery in Bodhgaya in approximately 1590 CE. The occupants of the monastery were of the Giri order, one of the ten Dashanami monastic orders founded by Shankara. The following succession of abbots for the monastery through the 1890s was listed in 1893 by Grierson:
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Hindu Saivite monk of a Shankara lineage
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