Satyapramoda Tirtha | |
Honorific Prefix: | His Holiness Śrī Śrī 1008 Śrī |
Honorific Suffix: | Śrīpād |
Religion: | Hinduism |
Founder: | Jayateertha Vidyapeetha |
Birth Name: | Gururajacharya Guttal |
Birth Date: | 1918 |
Death Date: | 3 November 1997 |
Death Place: | Tirukoilur, Tamil Nadu |
Literary Works: | Nyayasudha Mandanam,Yuktimallika Vyakhyana |
Honors: | Tarka Shiromani |
Order: | Vedanta (Uttaradi Math) |
Philosophy: | Dvaita Vedanta |
Satyapramoda Tirtha (IAST:Satyāpramoda Tīrtha; 1918 – 3 November 1997, was an Indian Hindu philosopher, spiritual leader, guru,, saint and the pontiff of Uttaradi Math, a math (mutt) dedicated to Dvaita philosophy, which has a large following in southern India. He served as the 41st pontiff of Madhvacharya Peetha - Uttaradi Math from 2 February 1948 – 3 November 1997. He had established Jayateertha Vidyapeetha in Bangalore, which has completed over 32 years.
Sri Satyapramoda Tirtha established Jayateertha Vidyapeetha in 1989, which presently holds more than 200 students and 15 teaching faculty members, in the subjects of Dvaita Vedanta, Vyakarana, Nyaya and Nyayasudha, a work on Dvaita Vedanta which has been published by this institution. It has in its custody vast collection of thousands of palm-leaf manuscripts.[1]
Satyapramoda Tirtha composed six major works, most of them are commentaries, glosses and few independent works. His work Nyayasudha Mandanam is an answer to Anantakrishna Sastri's, (an advaita scholar) criticism of Jayatirtha's Nyaya Sudha and the general criticism of the post-Sankara Advaita thinkers of Dvaita.