Ramabai combines the Sanskrit *Rama* and the Marathi-Indian honorific *bai* (lady). **Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922)** was an **Indian social reformer, scholar of Sanskrit (the first woman granted the title *Pandita* at Calcutta University), and Christian convert**. **She founded the Mukti Mission at Kedgaon — sheltering thousands of widows, orphans, and famine victims** — and translated the entire Bible into Marathi. **A delegate to the U.S. National Council of Women** in 1888.
**Honored on a 1989 Indian postage stamp.**
Ramabai reduces to one — the number of Indian Pandita.