Satyavijaya Tirtha Explained

Satyavijaya Tirtha
Honorific Prefix:Sri
Birth Name:Pandurangi Balacharya
Death Place:Sathiyavijayanagaram, Tiruvanamalai district, Tamil Nadu
Death Date:1737
Order:Vedanta (Uttaradi Math)
Disciples:Varkhed Timmannacharya
Philosophy:Dvaita,
Vaishnavism

Shri Satyavijaya Tirtha (died 1737) was an Indian Hindu philosopher, guru, and scholar. He was the successor of Satyapurna Tirtha and the 23rd pontiff of Uttaradi Math since Madhvacharya, the chief proponent and the one who rejuvenated this Dvaita philosophy and served the pontificate from 1726–1737.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Biography

According to hagiographies, Satyavijaya Tirtha was born Pandurangi Balacharya in a prominent family of scholars to Pandurangi Srinivasacharya. Satyavijaya Tirtha was given sanyasa by Satyapurna Tirtha with specific instructions that he, in turn, should hand over the Samsthana to his asrama senior Satyapriya Tirtha. Since Satyavijaya Tirtha was older in age he was given opportunity to be the Pontiff of Uttaradi Math after Satyapurna Tirtha.[5] Satyavijaya Tirtha served as the pontiff of Uttaradi Math from 1726 - 1737. During this time according to manuscripts which dates to 1726 A.D Satyavijaya Tirtha was honoured in Varadharaja Perumal Temple, Kanchipuram with certain privileges.[6] In 1737 he handed over the pontificate to Satyapriya Tirtha. He died in 1737 and his mortal remains are enshrined in a mutt in Satya Vijaya Nagaram (Arani) on the banks of river Kaveri.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: A History of Indian Philosophy: Volume 4. 56. Dasgupta. Cambridge University Press. 1949. 978-0521047814.
  2. Book: A Prehistory of Hinduism. 60. Manu V. Devadevan. 10 October 2016. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. 10 October 2016. 978-3110517378.
  3. Book: A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 4. 56. Surendranath Dasgupta. Motilal Banarsidass. 1975. 978-8120804159.
  4. Book: Sons of Sarasvati: Late Exemplars of the Indian Intellectual Tradition. 212. Chinya V. Ravishankar. Global Academic Publishing. 1 September 2018. 978-1438471853.
  5. Book: Vyāsatīrtha viracitā Tātparyacandrikā: Jayatīrthaviracita Tattvaprakāśikāyāḥ vyākhyānarūpā : Rāghavendra Tīrthaviracitā Prakāśikayā, Pāṇḍuraṅgi Keśavācāryaviracita Bhāvadīpikayā ca sahitā, Volume 3. lxiv. K.T.Pandurangi. Dvaita Vedanta Studies and Research Foundation. 2000.
  6. Book: Sri Varadarajaswami Temple, Kanchi: A Study of Its History, Art and Architecture. 137. K.V. Raman. Abhinav Publications. 2003. 978-8170170266.
  7. Book: Glossary of the Madras Presidency: containing a classification of terminology, a gazetteer, and economic dictionary of the province, and other information, the whole arranged alphabetically and indexed. 797. C. D. Maclean. Asian Educational Service. 1982.