Editing Dayananda Saraswati (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Dayananda Saraswati 1962 stamp of India.jpg|thumb|Dayananda Saraswati on a 1962 stamp of India.]]
[[Maharshi Dayanand University]] in Rohtak, [[Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University]] in Ajmer, [[DAV University]] (Dayanand Anglo-Vedic Schools System) in Jalandhar are named after him. So are over 800 schools and colleges under [[D.A.V. College Managing Committee]], including [[Dayanand College]] at Ajmer. Industrialist [[Nanji Kalidas Mehta]] built the Maharshi Dayanand Science College and donated it to the Education Society of Porbandar, after naming it after Dayananda Saraswati.

Dayananda Saraswati is most notable for influencing the freedom movement of India. His views and writings have been used by various individuals, including [[Shyamji Krishna Varma]], [[Subhas Chandra Bose]], [[Lala Lajpat Rai]], [[Bhikaiji Cama|Madam Cama]], [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]], [[Har Dayal|Lala Hardayal]], [[Madan Lal Dhingra]], [[Ram Prasad Bismil]], [[Mahadev Govind Ranade]],<ref name="Isrj.net">{{cite web |date=17 May 1996 |title=Mahadev Govind Ranade: Emancipation of women |url=http://www.isrj.net/PublishArticles/520.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225122331/http://www.isrj.net/PublishArticles/520.aspx%20 |archive-date=25 December 2018 |access-date=17 September 2012 |publisher=Isrj.net}}</ref> [[Swami Shraddhanand]], [[S. Satyamurti]], [[Pandit Lekh Ram]], [[Mahatma Hansraj]] and others.

He also had a notable influence on [[Bhagat Singh]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Dhanpati Pandey|title=Swami Dayanand Saraswati|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X9xKAAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India|page=8}}</ref> Singh, after finishing primary school, had joined the Dayanand Anglo Vedic Middle School, of Mohan Lal Road, in [[Lahore]].<ref>{{cite book |author=K. S. Bharathi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=enmjrZiAe9EC |title=Encyclopaedia of Eminent Thinkers |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |year=1998 |isbn=978-81-7022-684-0 |volume=7 |page=188}}</ref> [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]], on Shivratri day, 24 February 1964, wrote about Dayananda:

{{blockquote|Swami Dayananda ranked highest among the makers of modern India. He had worked tirelessly for the political, religious and cultural emancipation of the country. He was guided by reason, taking Hinduism back to the Vedic foundations. He had tried to reform society with a clean sweep, which was again needed today. Some of the reforms introduced in the Indian Constitution had been inspired by his teachings.<ref>World Perspectives on Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Ganga Ram Garg, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Siv6V1VDX-AC&pg=PA198 198].</ref>}}

The places Dayanand visited during his life were often changed culturally as a result. [[Jodhpur]] adopted [[Hindi]] as main language, and later the present day [[Rajasthan]] did the same.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Holloman |first=Regina E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zL40AAAAIAAJ |title=Perspectives on Ethnicity |author2=S. A. Aruti︠u︡nov |publisher=Mouton |year=1978 |isbn=978-90-279-7690-1 |pages=344–345}}</ref> Other admirers included [[Swami Vivekananda]],<ref>{{cite book|author=Basant Kumar Lal|title=Contemporary Indian Philosophy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WGxYTLq6XzUC|year=1978|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=978-81-208-0261-2|page=3}}</ref> [[Ramakrishna]],<ref>{{cite book|author=Christopher Isherwood|title=Ramakrishna and His Disciples|url=https://archive.org/details/ramakrishnahisdi0000ishe/page/159|year=1980|publisher=Vedanta Press|isbn=978-0-87481-037-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/ramakrishnahisdi0000ishe/page/159 159]}}</ref> [[Bipin Chandra Pal]],<ref>{{cite book |author=Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZqTXAAAAMAAJ |title=Indian Religious Historiography |date=1996 |publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers |isbn=978-81-215-0637-3 |page=58}}</ref> [[Vallabhbhai Patel]],<ref>Krishan Singh Arya, P. D. Shastri (1987) ''Swami Dayananda Sarasvati: A Study of His Life and Work''. Manohar. p. 327. {{ISBN|8185054223}}.</ref> [[Syama Prasad Mukherjee]], and [[Romain Rolland]], who regarded Dayananda as a remarkable and unique figure.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Sisirkumar Mitra|author2=Aurobindo Ghose|title=Resurgent India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7qHRAAAAMAAJ|year=1963|publisher=Allied Publishers|page=166}}</ref>

American Spiritualist [[Andrew Jackson Davis]] described Dayanand's influence on him, calling Dayanand a "Son of God", and applauding him for restoring the status of the Nation.<ref>{{cite book|author=Andrew Jackson Davis|title=Beyond the Valley: A Sequel to "The Magic Staff": an Autobiography of Andrew Jackson Davis ...|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000476737|year=1885|publisher=Colby & Rich|page=383}}</ref> [[Sten Konow]], a Swedish scholar noted that Dayanand revived the history of India.<ref>{{cite book|author=Har Bilas Sarda (Diwan Bahadur)|title=Dayanand Commemoration Volume: A Homage to Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati, from India and the World, in Celebration of the Dayanand Nirvana Ardha Shatabdi|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.237056|year=1933|publisher=Vedic Yantralaya|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.237056/page/n230 164]}}</ref>

Others who were notably influenced by him include [[Ninian Smart]], and [[Benjamin Walker (author)|Benjamin Walker]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://truthabouthinduism.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/swami-dayananda-saraswati-as-a-hindu-fundamentalist-and-nationalist/ |title=Ninian Smart & Benjamin Walker were influenced by Dayananda Saraswati |access-date=18 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418231958/https://truthabouthinduism.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/swami-dayananda-saraswati-as-a-hindu-fundamentalist-and-nationalist/ |archive-date=18 April 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>