Five months later it acquired its first printing machine for Rs 600. Seth Jaya Dayal Goyanka, Shri Hanuman Prasad Poddar and Shri Ghanshyam Das Jalan, Gita preachers set up the Gita Press on 29 April 1923, as a unit of Gobind Bhawan Karyalaya registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 (presently governed by the West Bengal Societies Act, 1960). The Gita Press archives contain over 3,500 manuscripts including over 100 interpretations of the Bhagwad Gita. It started publishing in 1927, with a circulation of 1,600 copies and at present its print order had reached 250,000 (in 2012). Hanuman Prasad Poddar better known as 'Bhaiji' was the founding and the lifetime editor of its noted magazine who also wrote articles with his pen name 'SHIV', Kalyan. It was founded in 1923 by Jaya Dayal Goyanka and Ghanshyam Das Jalan for promoting the principles of Sanatana Dharma. It is located in Gorakhpur city of India's Uttar Pradesh state. Gita Press is the world's largest publisher of Hindu religious texts.
