Damodar and the Pioneers of the Theosophical Movement

pp. xvi + 720, Figures Damodar K. Mavalankar was one of India? s quiet heroes who lent luster to a Spiritual civilization. Damodar was born in 1857 at Ahmedabad in Gujarat. H [more]

pp. xvi + 720, Figures Damodar K. Mavalankar was one of India? s quiet heroes who lent luster to a Spiritual civilization. Damodar was born in 1857 at Ahmedabad in Gujarat. He belonged to a wealthy family of the Karhada Maharashtra Brahmana caste and received a sound English education to which his writings bear testimony. In his childhood Damodar had a critical illness and the doctors despaired of his life. When the family expected him to die at any moment, the lad had a vision which made a deep impression upon him. He saw as if in a dream a glorious personage who gave him a peculiar medicine and amazingly, from th.[less]