Satyapramoda Tirtha Explained

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.

Jayateertha Vidyapeetha

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]

Notable works

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Vedas continue to live here. The Times of India. 3 June 2012 . 3 June 2012.