Gita Press is an Indian books publishing company, headquartered in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.[1] It is the world's largest publisher of Hindu religious texts. It was founded in 1923 by Jaya Dayal Goyanka and Ghanshyam Das Jalan for promoting the principles of Hinduism. Hanuman Prasad Poddar better known as "Bhaiji" was the founding and the lifetime editor of its noted magazine who also wrote articles with his pen name Kalyan.[2]
It started publishing in 1927, with a circulation of 1,600 copies and at present its print order had reached 250,000 (in 2012). The Gita Press archives contain over 3,500 manuscripts including over 100 interpretations of the Bhagavad Gita.[3]
Seth Jaya Dayal Goyanka, Shri Hanuman Prasad Poddar and Shri Ghanshyam Das Jalan, Gita preachers set up the Gita Press on 29 April 1923, as a unit of Gobind Bhawan Karyalaya registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (presently governed by the West Bengal Societies Act, 1960). Five months later it acquired its first printing machine for Rs 600. Since its establishment, the Gita Press has published more than 140 million copies of the Gita and 100 million copies of the Ramcharitamanas, at subsidized prices.[4] Gita Press completed its hundred years in 2022. Former President Ram Nath Kovind had started its centenary celebrations on 4th May 2022. Prime minister Narendra Modi also congratulated in 2023. [5] On 18 June 2023, Gita Press was conferred with the Gandhi Peace Prize of 2021, by the Government of India.[6]
Gita Press office gate in Gorakhpur
It temporarily shut down in December 2014 over wage issues, [7] but work resumed a few days later.[8]
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Shri Ramacharitamanasa, A Romanized Edition (1968 ed.). Gorakhpur: GitaPress. Gitapress ShriRamcharitmanas - End of each Kānd of Gitapress version Morari...
jinning presses. They published the earliest editions of Kalyan magazine for Geeta Press published during 1926-1927 before the press of GitaPress was itself...
and Sanskrit). Vol. Part III - Yuddha Kāṇḍa and Uttara Kāṇḍa (3 ed.). GitaPress. 1992. pp. 2130–2135. OCLC 27360288. Archived from the original on 5 April...
PIB. 22 March 2021. "Gandhi Peace Prize for 2021 to be conferred on GitaPress, Gorakhpur". pib.gov.in. Retrieved 18 June 2023. Wikimedia Commons has...
Wilson 2008, p. 100. Apte 2004, p. 637. Monier-Williams 2008, p. 1293. GitaPress 1998, pp. 681–682 (Verses 7.30.22–23). Apte 2004, p. 73. Bhattacharya...
(With Sanskrit Text and English Translation) - Part II(9th Edition), GitaPress, Gorakhpur Wilson, Horace Hayman (1840). "The Vishnu Purana: Book I: Chapter...
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Banarsidass Publishers. Bhagavata Purana Motilal English Full. GitaPress. Bhagavata Purana GitaPress. Veda Vyasa, Translated by Anand Aadhar (1 January 2012)...
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pages 259–265. Retrieved 15 June 2021. GitaPress Gorakhpur. Vishnu Puran Illustrated With Hindi Translations GitaPress Gorakhpur (in Sanskrit and Hindi)...
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founding editor of the spiritual magazine, Kalyan which was published by GitaPress setup by Ghanshyam Jalan and Jay Dayal ji Goeyendka. His work in fostering...
Hanuman Prasad (2001). Balkand. 94 (in Awadhi and Hindi). Gorakhpur, India: GitaPress. ISBN 81-293-0406-6. Archived from the original on 19 December 2014. Retrieved...
Himalayan Foothills. University of Chicago Press. p. 195. ISBN 978-0-226-40756-2. GitaPress. Bhagavata Purana GitaPress. pp. 453–460. Singh, K. V. (25 November...
Printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay. 1884. pp. 380–381. Harivamsha Purana (Supplement to Mahabharata). GitaPress. 2014. p. 1169. Brahma Vaivarta...
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