Who is Hari Parshad Das?

[Nityānanda dāsa]

Good morning from the lovely state of New Jersey. 

Sri Sri Radhe Shyam ki jai!

So I've been poking around quite a bit on archive.org. Looks like there's some fantastic stuff there. I am more and more realizing the need for me personally to learn Bengali and then maybe Sanskrit also just to be able to access the loads of literature that hasn't been touched by or translated into English yet. For example, here are some titles and links I've come across...

Sri Vrindavan Lilamrita by Sri Nandakishor Das Babaji - www.ebookarchive.org/details/SriVrindavanLilamrita/page/n17

Srinivasacharya Granthamala by Sri Haridas Das - www.ebookarchive.org/details/srinivasacharya_granthamala

Vaishnava Padavali compiled and edited by Sri Hare Krishna Mukhopadhyaya - www.ebookarchive.org/details/vaishnavapadavali

Uddharana Datta Kathamrita by Baidya Nath Bhowmick - www.ebookarchive.org/details/uddharana_datta_kathamrita

Sri Gaura Govinda Archana Paddhati by Siddha Krishnadas Tatapada - www.ebookarchive.org/details/gaura_govindarchana_paddhati/page/n17

Sri Govardhana Bhatta Granthavali by Sri Govardhana Bhatta (published by Krishnadas Baba, Kusum Sarovar) - www.ebookarchive.org/details/govardhana_bhatta_granthavali

Shri Nityananda Vamsha Vistara (published by Shri Kishori Das Babaji) - www.ebookarchive.org/details/nityananda_vamsha_vistara

I also found many other books, like one by Bipin Bihari Goswami. There's A LOT on archive.org

I also found a number of journals that are about and/or related to Caitanya Vaishnavism on the South Asia Archive - www.southasiaarchive.com/SerialResults?f0=All&o0=and&page=1&pf=1700&pt=1953&q0=Gauriya&sd=d&sf=r&sid=2070154925&us=True

Of course because I don't know the languages of these books/publications it is impossible for me at the moment to discern what is legitimate to our tradition and what is not. But at least it appears that some are from traditional CV parivar representatives. And the main point I'm getting to is that a lot of them have been uploaded by one 'Hari Parshad Das', which makes me think he may be a great contact to try to track down some more difficult to find books! Does anyone know him?

Radhe Radhe!!

[Nitaidas]

May 25, 2019 4:01:26 GMT -6 Nityānanda dāsa said:

Good morning from the lovely state of New Jersey. 

Sri Sri Radhe Shyam ki jai!

So I've been poking around quite a bit on archive.org. Looks like there's some fantastic stuff there. I am more and more realizing the need for me personally to learn Bengali and then maybe Sanskrit also just to be able to access the loads of literature that hasn't been touched by or translated into English yet. For example, here are some titles and links I've come across...

Sri Vrindavan Lilamrita by Sri Nandakishor Das Babaji - www.ebookarchive.org/details/SriVrindavanLilamrita/page/n17

Srinivasacharya Granthamala by Sri Haridas Das - www.ebookarchive.org/details/srinivasacharya_granthamala

Vaishnava Padavali compiled and edited by Sri Hare Krishna Mukhopadhyaya - www.ebookarchive.org/details/vaishnavapadavali

Uddharana Datta Kathamrita by Baidya Nath Bhowmick - www.ebookarchive.org/details/uddharana_datta_kathamrita

Sri Gaura Govinda Archana Paddhati by Siddha Krishnadas Tatapada - www.ebookarchive.org/details/gaura_govindarchana_paddhati/page/n17

Sri Govardhana Bhatta Granthavali by Sri Govardhana Bhatta (published by Krishnadas Baba, Kusum Sarovar) - www.ebookarchive.org/details/govardhana_bhatta_granthavali

Shri Nityananda Vamsha Vistara (published by Shri Kishori Das Babaji) - www.ebookarchive.org/details/nityananda_vamsha_vistara

I also found many other books, like one by Bipin Bihari Goswami. There's A LOT on archive.org

I also found a number of journals that are about and/or related to Caitanya Vaishnavism on the South Asia Archive - www.southasiaarchive.com/SerialResults?f0=All&o0=and&page=1&pf=1700&pt=1953&q0=Gauriya&sd=d&sf=r&sid=2070154925&us=True

Of course because I don't know the languages of these books/publications it is impossible for me at the moment to discern what is legitimate to our tradition and what is not. But at least it appears that some are from traditional CV parivar representatives. And the main point I'm getting to is that a lot of them have been uploaded by one 'Hari Parshad Das', which makes me think he may be a great contact to try to track down some more difficult to find books! Does anyone know him?

Radhe Radhe!!

Yes, there are amazing things available now on Archive.org. I have found and downloaded tons of big pdfs. Many are things I could not find when I was in Bengal, they are so rare. Some are things that I did find and thought I had a rare treasure. Now anyone can download it. I still have some treasures, though, that have not yet been posted. Nevertheless, I am glad some one has taken the time and effort to make these old texts available. If we could get the works that Puridas published after leaving IGM nicely scanned and uploaded, that would be great. They are the finest editions of the Caitanya Vaisnava canon ever produced.

I don't know who Hari Parshad Das is, but I suspect he is an IGMer. Fortunately for us, he is ignorant of the distinction between traditional CV and fake CV (IGM). He thinks they are the same, so he scans everything. Alongside the scam works of IGM are the original and real works of the CV tradition. For that we owe him a debt of gratitude. May his ignorance persist and his scanner hum on!

Now the texts at the South Asia Archive really interest me, in part because I would like to have access to all the great articles in those early Vaisnava journals. I am specially interested the one in which Vipinavihari Gosvami rejects Bhaktivinoda. That is of monumental importance for understanding the history and relevance of IGM with respect to the earlier and in my view authentic tradition.

I will look up the journal details and see if I can find that article or letter that VV Gosvami wrote. Someone challenged me once to produce it. Now maybe I can

Thanks, Nilamadhava, for your ongoing research.

[Īśvaradāsa]

Yes, he’s part of Iskcon, originally from Mumbai. There’s a short bio of him on the official gbc site, as he is now part of something they call the “Sastric Advisory Council” since 2016. He’s on Facebook and YouTube, so I guess that means it shouldn't be too difficult to contact him, Nila.

[Nitaidas]

Thanks for the info, Ed. It is as I suspected. Anyway, more power to him. Let him continue to add rare texts. Some of the scans are flawed, but most are readable.

I looked at the holdings of the South Asia Archive and they only have the issues of Sri Gauranga Sevak from 1915 in the archive. Vipinavihari Goswami's repudiation of Bhaktivinoda was published in 1919 in that journal. Maybe the British Library has it. It would be interesting to see what he says there.

[Nityānanda dāsa]

Nitai Das-ji,

Here's another lead to access Gauranga Sevak. I was just getting lost on the net looking for Bengali resources and came across this. Looks like you need access via some type of library...

www.crl.edu/collaborative-digitization/world-newspaper-archive/south-asian-newspapers