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'''Gossain Ghamandi Gir''' is the name of a Hindu [[Saivite]] monk of a [[Adi Shankara|Shankara]] lineage who is said to have founded a Saivite monastery in [[Bodhgaya]] in approximately 1590 CE.<ref name=trev06>{{cite book |last1=Trevithick |first1=Alan |title=The revival of Buddhist pilgrimage at Bodh Gaya : 1811 - 1949 / Anagarika Dharmapala and the Mahabodhi Temple |date=2006 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |location=Delhi |isbn=8120831071 |edition=1}}</ref>{{rp|24}}<ref name=kinnard13>Jacob N. Kinnard, "Bodh Gaya, India". In: {{cite book |editor1=William M. Johnston |editor-link1=Will Johnston |title=Encyclopedia of Monasticism |date=2013 |publisher=Taylor and Francis |location=Hoboken |isbn=9781579580902 |pages=157–158}}</ref>{{rp|157}}
The occupants of the monastery were of the Giri order, one of the ten [[Dashanami Sampradaya|Dashanami]] monastic orders founded by Shankara.<ref name=trev06/>{{rp|20}}
However, the Bodh Gaya Giri sect, for which the monastery was headquarters, "has had since its establishment no strong institutional or administrative links with any other ascetic organization".<ref name=trev06/>{{rp|23}}
[[File:400 years old Hindu Monasteryin Bodh Gaya.jpg|thumb|400 years old Hindu Monastery in Bodh Gaya]]

According to the ''Encyclopedia of Monasticism'',
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Gossain Ghamandi Gir's followers built a small monastery at Bodh Gaya in the early part of the 17th century that has since been continuously occupied by a lineage of Saiva priests. This monastery's status is relatively minor within the Saiva monastic system - according to oral tradition is ranked 36th among the 52 major Saivite maths - but it has served as an important anchor for Hindu pilgrims who visit Bodh Gaya in conjunction with visits to nearby [[Gaya, India|Gaya]] (a major Hindu ''[[Tirtha and Kshetra|tirtha]]'').... an active Saiva monastic presence still exists at Bodh Gaha.<ref name=kinnard13/>{{rp|157–168}}
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Gossain Ghamandi Gir is reported to have been the first ''mahanth'' (abbot) of the monastery.<ref name=grierson1893>{{cite book |last1=Grierson |first1=George Abraham |author-link1=George Abraham Grierson |title=Notes on the District of Gaya |date=1893 |publisher=Bengal Secretariat Press |location=Calcutta, India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k1E1AQAAIAAJ|access-date=6 November 2015}} (Reprinted by Nabu Press in 2011, {{ISBN|9781271951789}})</ref>{{rp|17}} The following succession of abbots for the monastery through the 1890s was listed in 1893 by [[George Abraham Grierson|Grierson]]:
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(1) Ghamandi Gir (1590-1615) 
(2) Chaitanya Gir (1615-1642) 
(3) Mahadeva Gir (1642-1682) 
(4) Lala Gir (1682-?) 
(5) Keshav Gir (?-1748) 
(6) Raghav Gir (1748-1769) 
(7) Ram Hit Gir (1769-1806) 
(8) Balak Gir (1806-1820) 
(9) Siv Gir (1820-1846) 
(10) Bhaipati Gir (1846-1867) 
(11) Hem Narayan Gir (1867-1891) 
(12) Krishna Dayal Gir (1891-now living [sic])<ref name=grierson1893/>{{rp|18}}
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According to Trevitich,
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What perhaps most distinguishes the Bodh Gaya Giris from the more "orthodox" Dasanami orders is the method they employ in electing their Mahants. Among the more "pure" sects, a new Mahant is chosen by a nominating board, theoretically answerable to the entire body of monks. The head of this board is chosen at the [[Kumbh Mela]] - a great gathering of ascetics held every six years.... The Mahants of Bodh Gaya are not elected in this manner.... At the death of the Mahant, the "general body of disciples" nominated, at Bodh Gaya, five electors.... It must immediately be said, however, that... general Hindu opinion, as indexed by newspaper articles and by public statements from religious leaders, was that the Giris were unambiguously "sanatan" or orthodox.<ref name=trev06/>{{rp|21–22}}
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