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The Shikshapatri (Devanagari: शिक्षापत्री) is a text of two hundred and twelve verses, written in Sanskrit by Bhagwan Swaminarayan. The Shikshapatri was written in Vadtal on February 11, 1826. he was recognized by his followers as the Lord during his lifetime. It is a dharma text, providing detailed instructions on how to live. Although Sanskrit was spoken by a small group as an every day language in India many centuries earlier, it is used even today as the language for religious texts. The Shikshapatri is a key scripture to all followers of the Swaminarayan faith and is considered the basis of the faith.

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Swaminarayan later instructed Nityanand Swami to translate Shikshapatri from Sanskrit into Gujarati. It has since been translated numerous times into other languages. It has been translated to Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Udiya, Urdu, Vraj, Afrikaans, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Modern Hebrew, North Sotho, Portuguese, Russian, South Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Xhosa, and Zulu,

Governor Sir John Malcolm

On February 26, 1830, an historic meeting took place between Swaminarayan and Sir John Malcolm, the then Governor of Bombay. At this meeting, Swaminarayan presented a Shikshapatri to Sir John Malcolm. This copy is now housed at the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford.

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