| Kundrakudi Adigal | |
| Birth Name: | Aranganathan |
| Birth Date: | 1925 7, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Naduthittu, Tanjore District, Madras Presidency, British India (now Mayiladuthurai district, Tamil Nadu, India) |
| Father: | Srinivasa Pillai |
| Mother: | Sornathammal |
Srinivasa Pillai Aranganathan (11 July 1925 – 15 April 1995), popularly known as Kundrakudi Adigal was a Saivite ascetic, Tamil orator, and writer from Tamil Nadu, India. He has written many books about Saivism and Tamil Literature.
He was born Aranganathan on 11 July 1925 in Naduthittu (a village in present-day Mayiladuthurai district to Srinivasa Pillai and Sornathammal. He had two elder brother and one elder sister.[1]
In 1945 he joined Dharumapuram Mutt.[2] Here he learned saivism, Tamil Literature. Later he joined Kundrakudi Thiruvannamalai Mutt. On 16 June 1952 he was appointed as 45th pointiff of the mutt.[3] He introduced many reforms in the mutt such as abolishing caste based admission in the mutt.[4]
His statue installed posthumously at the mutt is garlanded on his birthday by the government of Tamil Nadu as a government function.[5]
The books written by him was nationalised by the Government of Tamil Nadu in 1990.[6]