Sajjana Tosani

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> > Anyone with a copy of Seventh Goswami may kindly inform me which year

> > Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura started Sajjana Tosani. I believe it was 1897

> > but need to check.

 

> On page 7 of the book it is mentioned:

>

> "Kedaranath first published the famous Vaisnava journal, Sajjanatosani, in

> 1884."

>

 

I've just seen that Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura noted in his autobiography:

 

"While I was in Narail, in the month of Vaisakha, 1288, my Sajjana Toshani

newspaper was first published. When a new [printing] machine came to Narail

its owners came to me requesting work, and thus I printed Sajjana Toshani

there. After I left that place I was restricted [in what I could do], and

the newspaper could not be published regularly. At the conclusion of my stay

in Barasat I regularly spoke in English with Sri Upendra Gosvami. In 1883 an

English edition came out but then the patrika stopped. In 1885 I had the

Vaishnava Depository [a library?] at Rambagana. I stayed in Sri Rampur.

Radhika, Kamal and Bimal studied in Sri Rampur. In 1885 I, Radhika, Kamal,

Bimal and Prabhu went to Memari and Kulinagram. After that we visited

Saptagram. At that time I made some effort and put out an edition of Sajjana

Tosani. Around that time it was offered to the Visva Vaishnava Sabha, but

the publication stopped. After 1892 Sajjana Toshani was revived and

continued [to be published] regularly."

 

Vaisakha, 1288 corresponds with 1881 A.D.