GOWRISHANKAR See also:

• GOWRISHANKAR VODEYSHANKAR (1805-1892)

VODEYSHANKAR (1805-1892)  , native See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of See also:

• BHAUNAGAR, or BHAVNAGAR

Bhaunagar in See also:

• KATHIAWAR, or KATTYWAR

Kathiawar, Bombay, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 2ISt of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1805, of a See also:

• FAMILY

family of See also:

• NAGAR

Nagar Brahmins . He See also:

• ROSE
• ROSE (Rosa)
• ROSE, GEORGE (1744-1818)
• ROSE, HUGH JAMES (1795—1838)
• ROSE, WILLIAM STEWART (1775-1843)

rose from being a See also:

• REVENUE
• REVENUE (0. Fr. revenu, from revenir, to return)

revenue officer to be state minister in 1847 . His success in this capacity was such that on the See also:

• DEATH

death of the reigning See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief, in 1870, he was appointed See also:

• JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

joint See also:

• ADMINISTRATOR

administrator in See also:

• CONCERT (through the French from Lat. con-, with, and certare, to strive)

concert with a See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official . The experiment was in every respect successful . Under the See also:

• SIMPLE

simple and economical forms used in native states, improvements suggested by British experience were introduced . The See also:

• LAND

land revenue was based on a See also:

• CASH

cash See also:

• SYSTEM

system, the fiscal and customs systems were remodelled and See also:

• TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
• TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )

tree planting was encouraged . The See also:

• TOWN

town of Bhaunagar received the See also:

• GREAT

great boon of the Gowrishankar Waterworks, on which six lakhs of rupees were spent . The Bhaunagar state also warmly pressed for railway communication with the See also:

• CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent of See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, and thus began a See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement which has spread a network of railway lines over the See also:

• PENINSULA
• PENINSULA (Lat. paeninsula, from paene, almost, and insula, an island)

peninsula of Kathiawar . The British See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government re-warded these many services of Gowrishankar with the distinction of C.S.I. in 1877 . He helped to establish the Rajkumar See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College at See also:

• RAJKOT

Rajkot, for the See also:

• EDUCATION

education of native princes, and also the Rajasthanik See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

Court, which, after settling innumerable disputes between the land-owning classes and the chiefs, has since been abolished . In 1879 Gowrishankar resigned See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office, and devoted himself to the study of the higher literature of that Vedanta See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy which through his whole See also:

• LIFE

life had been to him a solace and a See also:

• GUIDE (in Mid. Eng. gyde, from the Fr. guide; the earlier French form was guie, English " guy," the d was due to the Italian form guida; the ultimate origin is probably Teutonic, the word being connected with the base seen in O. Eng. witan, to know)

guide . In 1884 he wrote a See also:

• WORK

work called 'Svarupanusandhan, on the See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

union of the soul with Deity, which led to a See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter of warm congratulation from Max See also:

• MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
• MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
• MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
• MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
• MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
• MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
• MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
• MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
• MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
• MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)

Muller, who also published a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography of him .

In 1887 he put on the robe of the Sanyasi or ascetic, the See also:

• FOURTH

fourth See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage, according to the See also:

• HINDU

Hindu Shastras, in the life of the twice-born See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man, and in this manner passed the See also:

• REMAINDER, REVERSION

remainder of his life, giving above ten See also:

• HOURS, CANONICAL

hours each See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day to Vedantic studies and See also:

• HOLY

holy contemplation . He died, revered by all classes, in See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1892 . See Javerital U . Yajnik, Gowrishankar Udayashankar (Bombay, 1889) .