Prabhupāda

Spellings

• Prabhupāda — Standard and scholarly rendition according to the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration.
• Prabhupada — Non-standard, non-scholarly, popular spelling, that does not take into account that the term's second "a" is a different letter in Sanskrit from the first and the third "a."
• Prabhupad — Non-standard, non-scholarly, popular phonetic spelling which renders the final "a" silent.
• Prabhupaada — Old-fashioned Anglicism.
• prabhupAda — Newfangled concoction created for computer systems without diacritical support.
• — Phonetic spelling according to the IPA standard.

  Etymology

Similar terms

• Visnupāda = "Visnu's Feet"
• Bhagavatpāda = "Lord's Feet"
• Padmapāda = "Lotus Feet"
• Srīpāda = "Venerable Feet"
• Srīpāda Rāya = "Kingly Venerable Feet"
• Srīpāda, Srīpādaru, Srīpādangalavaru = Svāmī Satyātma Tīrtha
• Krsnapāda = "Krsna's Feet"
• Rāmapāda = "Rāma's Feet"
• Kālīpāda = "Kālī's Feet"
• Gangapāda

  Usage

• In Gaudiya Vaishnavism, "Prabhu" usually refers to Caitanya "Mahā Prabhu", i.e. "Great Lord Caitanya."
• In the Gaudiya Math, "Prabhupāda" is used as an honorific for the founder Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī.
• In the ISKCON, "Prabhupāda" has been used as an honorific exclusively for the "Founder-Ācārya" Abhaya Caranaravinda Bhaktivedānta Svāmī since 1968. From 1966 to 1968, his American disciples called him "Swamiji." In 1968 ACBS, objected to the term, and said that in India they called their guru "Prabhupāda." The ISKCON has called him "Prabhupāda" ever since and has made the honorific term so popular worldwide that most non-Indians mistakenly think that "Prabhupāda" and "Swāmī Prabhupāda" are his names – although ACBS himself did not use this honorific on himself.
• In the Science of Identity / Chaitanya Mission, "Prabhupad" is used as an honorific exclusively for the founder Chris Butler.