High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Anantshri Swami Akhandanandji Saraswati (also spelled as Akhandananda Saraswati, he was known as "Maharajshri" to many of his followers) (1911–1987), was an exponent of Bhagavata Purana and a scholar of diverse spiritual traditions including Vedanta, Bhakti, and associated Shastras(scriptures). He was born on Friday, July 25, 1911 in Pushya Nakshatra (Shravana Amavasya v.s. 1968 per Vikram Calendar) in the village of Maharai in the district of Varanasi. Maharajshri was born exactly nine months after his grandfather had prayed to Shri Shantanu Behari, the Lord of Vrindavan. According to the lunar calendar, it was the Amawasya of the month of Shravan, in the Samvat 1968. His Saryupaarine Brahmin family named him "Shantanu Behari", since he was born by the grace of the Lord Shantanu Bihari