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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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ŚRĪNIVĀSA BHATIA.
Śrīnivāsa Bhatta Gosvāmin and his descendants appear to have occupied a position of some distinction in Northern India, where Srinivāsa had migrated from his original home in the South. A fair account of the family may be gathered from the works left by Srinivāsa and his descendants. It is known from the introductory verses of the Sivārcana-candrikā (6231), which gives a detailed description of the family and its ancestral home, that to the south of Kāñci (Conjeeveram) there was a big village called Ananta, on the banks of the river Eņā, which was inhabited by pious and learned Brahmins, who had received the village as a grant from a certain king. Here was the ancestral home of a learned family of scholars of whom Srinivāsa was the most prominent. His father, Sriniketana, grandfather, Timummala, and great grandfather, Samarapungava Diksita, have all been referred to by him in glowing terms. Srinivasa, who was specially versed in the Tantras, had gone on a festive occasion to Jullandhar, a famous seat of Tantric worship and was initiated by Sundarācārya or Saccidānandanātha, presumably the author of the Lalitārcana-candrikā and the Laghu-candrikā (6343) which may be an abridgement of the former. His postinitiation name appears to have been Vidyānandanātha. As desired by his preceptor he came down to and settled at Benares. He was the author of several Tantric compilations four of which he has mentioned by name at the end of his Sivārcana-candrikā.
The dignity of the family was continued, if not enhanced, by the successors of Srīnivāsa. His son Jagannivāsa, who was also versed in the Tantra lore, counted among his disciples a number of ruling chiefs of the time, of whom Devisimha (Bundel) has been mentioned by Sivānanda Gosvāmin, the eldest of the sons of Jagannivāsa, who wrote the Simhasiddhānta-sindhu (6193) at the request of the above-mentioned chief. Janārdana, another son of Jagannivāsa and probably the youngest one, was the author of the Mantra-candrikā (6232) 1.
VIÁVANĀTHA SINGH of Rewa.
We learn from volume IV of Captain Luard's Rewa State Gazetteer (Lucknow, 1907) that Visvanath Singh who succeeded his
1 For a detailed account of Śrīnivāsa cf. IHQ., XV, pp. 131ff.
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