Editing Dayananda Saraswati (section)

==Cremation and commemoration==
[[File:NavlakhaMahal.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Information board inside Navlakha Mahal.]]

He breathed his last at ''Bhinai Kothi'' at Bhinai 54&nbsp;km  south of Ajmer, and his ashes were scattered at Ajmer in [[Ana Sagar Lake#Rishi Udyan|Rishi Udyan]] as per his wishes.<ref name="swa1">{{Cite book |last=Chatterjee |first=Ramananda |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1wsFAAAAMAAJ&q=Bhinai+Kothi+swami+dayanand |title=The Modern Review |date=1933 |publisher=Prabasi Press Private, Limited |language=en}}</ref> Rishi Udyan, which has a functional Arya Samaj temple with daily morning and evening [[yajna]] [[Homa (ritual)|homa]], is located on the banks of [[Ana Sagar Lake]] off the [[National Highway 58 (India)|NH58 Ajmer-Pushkar Highway]]. An annual 3 day ''Arya Samaj [[melā]]'' is held every year at ''Rishi Udyan'' on Rishi Dayanand's death anniversary at the end of October, which also entails vedic seminars, vedas memorisation competition, yajna, and [[Dhvaja|Dhavaja Rohan]] flag march.<ref name=swa2>[https://www.patrika.com/jaipur-news/rishi-dayanand-mela-start-in-ajmer-arya-scholors-in-ajmer-1447262/ Rishi Dayanand mela start in Ajmer Arya scholors in Ajmer], [[Rajasthan Patrika]], 20 November 2015.</ref> It is organized by the ''Paropkarini Sabha'', which was founded by Swami Dayanand Saraswati on 16 August 1880 in Meerut, registered in Ajmer on 27 February 1883, and since 1893 has been operating from its office in Ajmer.<ref name=swa2/>

Every year on [[Maha Shivaratri]], Arya Samajis celebrate [[Tankara#Rishi Bodh Utsav|Rishi Bodh Utsav]] during the 2 days mela at Tankara organized by Tankara Trust, during which [[Mangal Shobhajatra|Shobha Yatra]] procession and Maha Yajna is held; event is also attended by the Prime Minister of India [[Narendra Modi]] and Chief Minister of Gujarat [[Vijay Rupani]].<ref>[https://issuu.com/first_india/docs/first_india_gujarat_for_gujarat_samachar_epaper_22 Rishi Ustsav celebrated in presence of CM], First Paper.</ref>

[[Gulab Bagh and Zoo#Navlakha Mahal|Navlakha Mahal]] inside [[Gulab Bagh and Zoo]] at [[Udaipur]] is also associated with him where he wrote the second edition of his seminal work, Satyarth Prakash, in [[Vikram Samvat|Samvat]] 1939 (1882-83 CE).<ref>{{cite news|title=Udaipur Garden Palace now a shrine to Arya Samaj founder|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Udaipur-Garden-Palace-now-a-shrine-to-Arya-Samaj-founder/articleshow/55282697.cms|newspaper=The Times of India|date=7 November 2016 |publisher=Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd|access-date=8 November 2016}}</ref>