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Gita Press
The Gita Press is the world's largest publisher of Hindu religious texts.〔(Encyclopedia Britannica ).〕 It is located in Gorakhpur city of India's Uttar Pradesh state. It was founded in 1923 by Jaya Dayal Goyandka for promoting the principles of ''Sanatana Dharma''. Hanuman Prasad Poddar was the founding and the lifetime editor of its noted magazine, ''Kalyan''.〔(Hanuman Prasad Poddar )〕 It started publishing in 1927, with a circulation of 1,600 copies and at present its print order had reached 2.5 lakh (in 2012). The Gita Press archives contain over 3,500 manuscripts including over 100 interpretations of the Gita.〔(Holy word ) India Today, December 20, 2007 .〕
Seth Jaya Dayal Goyandka, a Gita preacher set up the Gita Press on April 29, 1923, as a unit of Gobind Bhawan Karyalaya registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (presently governed by the West Bengal Societies Act, 1960). Five months later it acquired its first printing machine for Rs 600. Since its establishment, the Gita Press has published approximately 410 million copies of the Gita (in different editions) and 70.0 million copies of the ''Ramcharitamanas'', at subsidized prices.〔
It temporarily shut down in December 2014 over wage issues,〔(Historic Geeta Press shuts down indefinitely )〕 but work resumed a few days later.〔(Work resumes at Gita Press )〕
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