VODEYSHANKAR, GOWRISHANKAR native minister of the state of Bhaunagar in Kathiawar, Bombay, was born on Aug. 21, 1805, of a family of Nagar Brahmans. He rose from being a revenue officer to be state minister in His success in this capacity was such that on the death of the reigning chief, in 1870, he was appointed joint administrator in concert with a British official. The experiment was in every re spect successful. Gowrishankar received the C.S.I. in 1877. He helped to establish the Rajkumar College at Rajkot, for the edu cation of native princes, and also the Rajasthanik Court, which, after settling innumerable disputes between the land-owning classes and the chiefs, has since been abolished. In 1879 Gowrishankar
resigned office, and devoted himself to the study of the Vedanta philosophy which had been his constant solace and guide. In 1884 he wrote a work called Svarupanusandhan, on the union of the soul with Deity. He died, much revered, in December 1892.
See Javerital U. Yajnik, Gowrishankar Udayashankar (Bombay, 1889).