Bochasan

Bochasan

Bochasan is a small town in Gujarat, western India. Is known primarily as the origin of BAPS - the 'Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Sanstha,' so named because its first formal center was established in Bochasan in 1907 by their guru Shastriji Maharaj.


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