Traditional Mahanam Sampradaya (Bengali: মহানাম সম্প্রদায়) is a monastic organisation founded in the last decade of the 19th century within Hinduism in the Bengal Presidency of colonial British India and spiritually inspired by Prabhu Jagadbandhu.

[1] Radha Krishna, Gaur Nitai and Prabhu Jagadbandhu are the chief deities worshiped by the Mahanam Sampradaya.

[citation needed] Formation of Mahanam Sampradaya started with the advent of Prabhu Jagadbandhu (1871 – 1921) — a mystic and author of Kirtan songs[3]—who was the focus of a new revival movement within the Bengali Vaishnavas in the last decade 19th century, and whom Mahanam Sampradaya (and many others) believe as an Avatar of Krishna as Chaitanya Mahaprabhu[4] and Nityananda.

At the first time, in 1891 Annada Charan Datta—the leader of Hari Sabha, a circle of devotees at Hooghly—was reported to have had a vision that Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was reincarnate in the form of Prabhu Jagadbandhu.

Initiation in the hallowed name of Hari is the sure means of attaining salvation (i.e. deliverance from all agonies and sufferings).

Sripad Mahendraji decided to settle in Sri Angan and lead the life of an ashramite Brahmachari i.e.

Prabhu Jagadbandu asked Sripad Mahendraji to organise a band of selfless brahmacharies i.e. those who follow Brahmacarya.

Accordingly, a band of about 50 Sannyasins was assembled, who together founded the Mahanam Sampradaya under the leadership of Sripad Mahendraji.

[7] Later Sripad Mahendraji made his disciple Dr. Mahanambrata Brahmachariji, the head of Mahanam Sampradaya.

[7] Sripad Mahendraji sent Mahanambrata Brahmachari, a scholarly leader of Mahanam Sampradaya, as a deligate to Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. to attend the conference.

[8] After returning from Chicago and after the death of Sripad Mahendraji, Mahanambrata Brahmachari was made the head of Mahanam Sampradaya.

Ahimsa(Non-Violence), Samyama(Self-restraint), Shaucha(cleanliness), Achourya( non- thiefness), and Satya(truth).

Mahanam Sampradaya also donate free blankets for the poor and needy people in the winter months.

Mahanam Sampradaya runs two schools of their own and also provide free books for the needy and meritorious students.