Swami Ramanand was born in the city that has what alternate name?
Swami Ramanand Ramanand Swami (born "Rama Sharma") to a Brahmin family in Ayodhya in 1738. His parents were Ajay Sharma (father) and Sumati (mother). He was considered to be the incarnation of Uddhava, a close friend of Krishna. Ramanand was the founder and head of the Uddhav Sampraday. Ramanand Swami adopted of the Vishishtadvaita doctrine of the Vaishnava which was first propounded by Ramanuja several centuries earlier. In his travels to Srirangam in southern India in his early life, Ramanand Swami said that Ramanuja gave him diksha (initiation) in a dream and appointed him in his line as an acharya. Ramanand Swami then travelled north to Kathiyavad to spread his philosophy. Before dying in 1802, Ramanand Swami passed the reins of the Uddhav Sampraday to Swaminarayan.
Prabhu Jagadbandhu Prabhu Jagadbandhu was a 19th-century Hindu Vaishnav Saint of Bengal. Considered by his followers to be a re-incarnation of Chaitanya, he spent much of his life meditating and preaching in the Sri Angan ashram in Faridpur, British India (present day Bangladesh). His teachings inspired the founding of the Mahanam Sampraday sect. He died in 1921 in Sri Angan. His remains have been preserved and worshipped ever since with continuous recitation of Harinam or God's name.