ராகவேந்திரர் வரலாறு | Sri Raghavendra History in Tamil | Mantralayam @landofspirituality

#mantralaya #mantralayamtemple #raghavendraswamy #ragavendramandralayam #ragavendraswami #ராகவேந்திரர்    • திருவண்ணாமலை கோவில் வரலாறு | Tiruvannamala...      • திரியம்பகேஸ்வரர் கோவில் வரலாறு | Trimbakes...      • ஷீரடி சாய்பாபாவின் கதை | Shirdi Sai Baba H...      • ஸ்ரீ காளஹஸ்தி கோயில் முழு வரலாறு | Kalahas...      • யாதகிரிகுட்டா நரசிம்மர் ஆலயம் தல வரலாறு| Y...   Raghavendra Tirtha was born as Venkatanatha in the town of Bhuvanagiri, present day in Tamil Nadu into a Kannada Madhva Brahmin family of Gautama Gotra of musicians and scholars.[3][4] His great-grandfather Krishna Bhatta was a tutor to the Vijayanagara emperor Krishnadevaraya. His grandfather was Kanakachala Bhatta,[5] and his father Thimmanna Bhatta (also known as Thimmannacharya) was an accomplished scholar and musician.[6] After the fall of the Vijayanagara Empire, Thimmanacharya migrated to Kanchi with his wife Gopikamba. Venkatanatha had two siblings—Gururaja and Venkatamba. Venkatanatha's education was taken care of by his brother-in-law Lakshmi Narasimhacharya at Madurai after the early demise of his father, and he subsequently got married. In 1624, Raghavendra Tirtha became the pontiff of the Kumbhakonam Matha, which was earlier known as Vijayeendra Matha or Dakshinadi Matha, now known by the name of Mantralaya Sri Raghavendra Swamy Matha. Uttaradi Math along with Vyasaraja Math and Raghavendra Math are considered to be the three premier apostolic institutions of Dvaita Vedanta and are jointly referred as Mathatraya. After a short stay at Kumbakonam, he went on a pilgrimage to Rameswaram, Ramnad, Srirangam, and Mathura. Later, he moved westwards to Udupi and Subramanya, and then to Pandharpur, Kolhapur and Bijapur. At Kolhapur, he is said to have stayed for a long time and at Bijapur, he supposedly defeated many Advaitins and converted them to Dvaita fold.[11] After that, he returned to Kumbakonam. By 1663 he left for Mysore where he got a grant from Dodda Devaraya Odeyar. Finally, he chose to settle down in Mantralayam.[12] According to tradition, he attained Vrindavana in 1671 in Mantralayam, a village on the bank of river Tungabhadra in Adoni taluk in Andhra Pradesh.[12] Works About 45 works written in Sanskrit are attributed to Raghavendra Tirtha.[2][13] Sharma notes that his works are characterised by their compactness, simplicity and their ability to explain the abstruse metaphysical concepts of Dvaita in understandable terms.[2][13][14] His Tantradipika is an interpretation of the Brahma Sutra from the standpoint of Dvaita, incorporating elements from Jayatirtha's Nyaya Sudha, Vyasatirtha's Tatparya Chandrika and the glosses by Vijayendra Tirtha.[14] Bhavadipa is a commentary on Jayatirtha's Tattva Prakasika which, apart from elucidating the concepts of the source text, criticises the allegations against Madhva raised by Appaya Dikshita and grammarian Bhattoji Dikshita. Raghavendra Tirtha's expertise in Purva Mimamsa and Vyakarana is evident from his works on Vyasatirtha's Tatparya Chandrika, which runs up to 18,000 stanzas, and his lucid commentary on the Purva Mimamsa Sutras called Bhatta Sangraha, explaining the Purva Paksha and Siddhanta.[15][16] His most celebrated work is his commentary on Nyaya Sudha titled Nyaya Sudha Parimala, earning him the title Sudha Parimalacharya (Sudhā Parimaḷācārya).[17] Apart from these works, he wrote commentaries on the Upanishads, first three chapters of Rigveda (called Mantramanjari) and Bhagavad Gita.