Laxminath Bezbarua - Confusion Regarding Date of Birth

Confusion Regarding Date of Birth

There is a confusion regarding the date of birth of Lakhminath Bezbaruah and also a story behind it as told by Bezbaruah himself. In the first line of the first paragraph of the first chapter of his auto-biography Mor Jiban Sowaran (মোৰ জীৱন সোঁৱৰণ),Lakhminath Bezbaruah confirms outright his inability to remember his exact date of birth that his parents used to tell him. But later when he grew young and required to put his date of birth for essential records ,he invented a date for the purpose viz."1868 AD, November". He writes that he would like to offer this piece of information to anyone interested knowing about his date of birth although he is unsure whether that information in any way would going to affect the balance-sheet of anyone's life. In the next line he explicitly writes that approximately translates into "... I am not convinced that on hearing,knowing or composing the news of my incarnation to destroy the "Annasur" (Food Devil) in that given year, perhaps two or four years earlier or later for that matter, the mankind shall be at any loss or profit or concede any damage...."

In the very next paragraph, he went on describing in detail how and why the Bundle of Birth-Charts,kept religiously and secretly away from the kids by his parents, which contained the one, the his one he knew for certain during his childhood, was lost.

Lakhminath Bezbaruah has however confirmed in his auto-biography that he was born in the autumn on a full-moon night, on which "Lakhmi Puja" ( A Hindu festival of worship of Goddess Lakhmi) is celebrated in India, and to mark the coincidence, he was named by his parents as "Lakhminath" ( A name for Vishnu, the Hindu God and husband of Goddess Lakhmi). This autumn-festival celebrated in the full-moon of Ashvin usually falls in the month of October in any year. As per NASA web-site data from (http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/phase/phases1801.html) there was only one full-moon day in the month of November,1868 and that was on 30th but that was not the day of celebration of Lakhmi puja in that year. Presently ,the Assam Sahitya Sabha has settled on a date "14th October,1864", that was a full-moon night of Lakhmi Puja in India,for his date of birth.