Bhagwan Swaminarayan initiated approximately 3,000 sadhus (saints) in His time. Of those, 500 were known as ‘nand santo’ or paramhansas. Their names ended with ‘nand’, i.e., Brahmanand, Premanand, Muktanand, Shukanand, and Gunatitanand. These are the one who passed the 108 different tests of austerities and hardships. Some of them were kings, royal poets, musicians, Brahmins, royal advisors, even warriors. Bhagwan Swaminarayan attracted people from all over the Indian subcontinent who surrendered their assets and live at His feet.
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Vachanamrut Visualization
Chintan M. Bhatt (Charotar University of Science and Technology, India), Bhishm Daslaniya (Charotar University of Science and Technology, India), Ghanshyam Patel (Charotar University of Science and Technology, India), and Divyesh Patel (Charotar University of Science and Technology, India)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5753-2.ch006
Abstract
The authors discuss their interaction with data using various data visualization techniques, which are a quick, easy way to convey concepts universally. Currently, data has become more and more important; it is also important how one can visualize that data in the mind. This chapter is based on extracting important information from one of the holy Swaminarayan scriptures. The authors explore the content of the Vachanamrut, a unique work of prose in the Gujarati language, which contains discourses of Lord Swaminarayan and his conversation with saints and devotees. They convert the data in graphical interface using some libraries of the R tool. So, one can get the main idea of that data quickly, without a need to explain more about that data. Summing it up, this chapter examines the techniques of describing data of any ancient scripture or ancient text in any language by visualizing that data.