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Jagadguru Rambhadracharya (January 14, 1950 –) , born Giridhar Mishra, is an acclaimed scholar, educationist, polyglot, composer, orator, philosopher and Hindu religious leader based in Chitrakuta, Uttar Pradesh, India. He is the founder and lifelong chancellor of the Jagadguru Rambhadacharya Handicapped University, a university situated in Chitrakuta, which offers graduate and postgraduate courses exclusively to the four types of disabled students. Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya lost his eyesight at the age of two months and has been blind since then. He has never used Braille or any other aid to learn or compose. He can speak 22 languages, and is a spontaneous poet (Āśukavi) and composer in Sanskrit, Hindi, Awadhi, Maithili and several other languages.

Giridhara lost his eyesight at the age of two months. On March 24, 1950, his eyes were infected by Trachoma. There were no advanced facilities for treatment in the village. He was taken to a local quack, an elderly woman who was known to cure Trachoma. She poured a hot concoction in the baby's eyes to burst the Trachoma lumps, but the eyes started bleeding and the baby lost its eyesight. To restore his eyesight, he was taken by his family to various Ayurvedic, Homeopathic, Allopathic and alternate medicine physicians in Sitapur, Lucknow and Mumbai, but to no avail. Giridhara Miśra has been without eyesight ever since. He cannot read or write, as he does not use the Braille system, but learns by listening and composes by dictating to scribes.