Sri Vyasaraja Math (Kannada: ವ್ಯಾಸರಾಜ ಮಠ) (formerly known as Poorvadi Math[1]) is one of the three premier Dvaita Vedanta monasteries (matha) descended from Jagadguru Śrī Madhvācārya through Jayatirtha and Rajendra Tirtha (a disciple of Vidyadhiraja Tirtha) and their disciples.[2][3]
Vyasaraja Math, along with Uttaradi Math and Raghavendra Math, are considered to be the three premier apostolic institutions of Dvaita Vedanta and are jointly referred as Mathatraya .[4][5][6] It is the pontiffs and pandits of the Mathatraya that have been the principle architects of post-Madhva Dvaita Vedanta through the centuries.[7] Among the mathas outside of Tulu Nadu region, among Madhwa mutts Vyasaraja Matha is the largest matha.
Guru Parampara
edit- Śrī Madhvacharya
- Śrī Padmanabha Tirtha
- Śrī Naraharitirtha
- Śrī Madhava Tirtha
- Śrī Akshobhya Tirtha
- Śrī Jayatirtha
- Śrī Vidyadhiraja Tirtha
- Śrī Rajendra Tīrtha
- Śrī Jayadwaja Tīrtha
- Śrī Purushothama Tīrtha
- Śrī Bramhanya Tīrtha
- Śrī Śrī Vyasa Tīrtha (or Sri Chandrikacharya)
- Śrī Srinivasa Tīrtha
- Śrī Rama Tīrtha
- Śrī Lakshmikantha Tīrtha
- Śrī Sripathi Tīrtha
- Śrī Ramachandra Tīrtha
- Śrī Lakshmivallabha Tīrtha
- Śrī Lakshminatha Tīrtha
- Śrī Lakshmipathi Tīrtha
- Śrī Lakshminarayana Tīrtha
- Śrī Raghunatha Tīrtha (or Sri Sheshachandrikacharya)
- Śrī Jagannatha Tīrtha (or Sri Bhashyadeepikacharya)
- Śrī Srinatha Tīrtha
- Śrī Vidyanatha Tīrtha
- Śrī Vidyapathi Tīrtha
- Śrī Vidyavallabha Tīrtha
- Śrī Vidyakaantha Tīrtha
- Śrī Vidyanidhi Tīrtha
- Śrī Vidyapurna Tīrtha
- Śrī Vidyasrisindhu Tīrtha
- Śrī Vidyasridhara Tīrtha
- Śrī Vidyasrinivasa Tīrtha
- Śrī Vidyasamudra Tīrtha
- Śrī Vidyaratnakara Tīrtha
- Śrī Vidyavaridhi Tīrtha
- Śrī Vidyaprasanna Tirtha
- Śrī Vidyapayonidhi Tīrtha
- Śrī Vidyavachaspathi Tīrtha
- Śri Vidyamanohara Tirtha (Peeta Thyaga)
- Śri Vidyasreesha Tirtha (present pontiff)
Present Pontiff
editMahamahopadhya Prof. D.Prahladacharya, Former Vice-Chancellor of Rashtreeya Samskrit Vidyapeeta, Tirupati was crowned as the new with the pontifical name of Sri VidyaSrisha Tirtharu on 2 July 2017 at Tirumakudalu, Mysore, Karnataka.
See also
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edit- ^ Hebbar 2005, p. 93.
- ^ Konduri Sarojini Devi (1990). Religion in Vijayanagara Empire. Sterling Publishers. p. 133. ISBN 9788120711679.
This selection of Kavindra as the successor of Vidyadhiraja, leaving Rajendra Tirtha resulted in the bifurcation of the Madhva Mathas, namely Vyasaraya Matha at Sosale headed by Rajendra Tirtha and Uttaradi Matha presided by Kavindra Tirtha.
- ^ Sadhu Subrahmanya Sastry; V. Vijayaraghavacharya. Tirumalai-Tirupati Dēvasthānam Epigraphical Series: pt. 1. Inscriptions of Venkatapatiraya's time. Sri Mahant's Dévasthānam Press. p. 72.
Vidyādhirāja Tirtha ( the sixth Pontiff) or sixth successor of Uttarādi Matha) and founder of Vyāsarāya Matha), and appointed Rajendra Tirtha, as first Pontiff of this Vyāsaraya Matha
- ^ Sharma 2000, p. 199.
- ^ Steven Rosen (30 November 1994). Vaisnavism. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. p. 132. ISBN 9788120812352.
- ^ Sharma 2000, p. 193.
- ^ B. N. Hebbar (2004). Viśiṣṭādvaita and Dvaita: A Systematic and Comparative Study of the Two Schools of Vedānta with Special Reference to Some Doctrinal Controversies. Bharatiya Granth Niketan. p. 29. ISBN 9788189211011.
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