He wanted it to be constructed on the lines of Lord Shiva temple at Angkor Wat in Cambodia," she said. One of his disciples, a former Congress MLA and ex-Jabalpur Mayor Kalyani Pandey told PTI that the Shankracharya had prevailed over the then Prime Minister Rajeev Gandhi to get the locks of the then Babri mosque, which housed the idols of Lord Ram, in Ayodhya opened. Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh was one of the thousands of followers of the Shankracharya. His 99th birthday was celebrated on teej that fell on August 30, they said. Pothiram Upadhyay became Shankracharya (of Dwarka Peeth) in 1981, his followers said. He was jailed twice, once for 9 months and another of 6 months. He became a freedom fighter in the Quit India movement in 1942 and was called as 'Revolutionary Sadhu'. He had left his home in pursuit of God at the age of 9. Swaroopanand Saraswati was born as Pothiram Upadhyay in Dighori village in the Seoni district of Madhya Pradesh in 1924. 'His bhoo samadhi in sitting position which is given to ' sanyasis' will take place around 3-4 pm at his Paramhansi Ganga Ashram, Jyoteshwar, in Gotegaon in Narsinghpur on Monday,' it said. He will be given a ' bhoo samadhi' (burial) on the campus of the Ashram around 3 to 4 pm on Monday, the release said.
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