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Sanskrit into Tamil in the year $. 1527. The Dutch, who tried to land at Negapatam in order to found a trading factory, were repulsed and driven away by Achyutappa Nayaka. Like his father, he also made his son, Raghunatha Nāyaka, yuvaraja in his own lifetime. The name of the queen of Achyutappa Nāyaka is Mürttimâmbă.
The dopee, Vijayindra Tirtha, is one of the most famous of the Mādbva achāryas. Nothing is knowo of his parentage and his birth place. Surēndra Tirtha of the Pārvādi or Sumatindra matha, who was the twelfth in descent from Madhvachārya, the founder of the Dvaita school of philosophy, was the spiritual guru of Vijayfadra. It is from him that he received the robes of sannyasa, and eventually he also succeeded him on the pontifical see as the thirteenth guru. But Vijayindra, like Vâdirāja Tirtha of the Saudē matha, received all his ed acation in philosophy from the great Vyasarāya Tirtha of the Vyasarāya matha. Vijayindra was succeeded by Sudhindra and he, in bis turn, by Rāghavēndra Tirtha, who was the fifteenth in the list of succession. Next to Srimad Ananda Tirtha (another name of Madhvācbārya) and Jaya Tirtha, the most important names in the history of the Mādhva hierarchy are Vyasarāya Tirtha, Vijayindra Tirtha, Vadiraja Tirtha and Rāghavēndra Tirtha. Therefore, a short summary of the lives of these four acharyas will not be out of place in this paper.
Brahmanya Tirtha of the Vyāsarāya matha was once doing his pūja when a lady came and prostrated herself before him. In the asual way he blessed her to be a sumangali for a long time and become the mother of noble sons. But the woman told him that her husband was breathing his last, and that his blessing was going to be of no avail to her. However, Brahmanya Tirtha assured her that her husband would live long and that she would really have noble sons, and he asked her to promise him her first-born son, which she gladly did. After some time a Bon was born to ber, and she promptly made the child over to Brahmapya 'Tirtha. That Svāmin brought the child up on the milk that was used for abhisheka in his paja. When the child grew to about the seventh year of age, the upanayana ceremony was performed and a little time after he was made a sannyäsin. This pupil of Brahmanya Tirtha was Vyasa (i.e. Vråsariya) Tirtha. His higher education was undertaken by Sripādarāya Tirtha of the Mulbāgal matha.? He became a great scholar and favourite with royal personages. It is said
1 Verse 18, of the Tamil Tiruraiyarru-Puranam.Mali-punal fu! Sonds Tanjaiyir-kattidum arafar madiy-amaichcha poli-marai-tér Görinda-Ditchidarayan tiru=rakkudaimaiyala kaliyugattu-chchagap-andu murraiturrírubadin-mér-kanum=eļāyp. poli-rarudatt Aiyyarru-ppurāna-tadamoli Tamiļār-pugalalurrës. Nos. 366 and 867 (Tamil MSS.)
Tanjore Palace Library. [It is also possible to interpret mid-ainmärritubadin= as equal to thrice five-hundred and twenty,' ... 1560. -K.V. S.] 17171987 war fatet: gruer uzau iaraufanaat faux HERA HOTY
gf arceau Sahityaratnakara, VI, 68. । सर्व धैर्यविधतमेरुविभवे सर्वसहाया भरं प्रौदेऽस्मिनघुनाथ नाबि निदधरपुत्राचुतचापतिः । औरणस्थलसंगती बुधकुलं शीतांशकौमिव ATH: è gote maua #2: of af. Ibidem, XII, 94. • The following is the traditional list of the samins of this matha as far as Raghavondra Tirtha - (a) Madhvacharya. () Padmanabha Tirtha. (e) Madhava T. (d) Jaya Tirtha. (6) Vidyadhiraja T.
Kavindra T. (9) Vägisa T. () Ramachandra T. (0) Narayana T. 6) Vibudhendra T. (1) Jitämitra T. (1) Raghunandana T. (m) Surendra T. (r) Vijayindra T. () Sudlindra T. (P) Raghavendra T. PER Elgrat fata: ATEIT 7-19 faarufa Vijayindra-stötram.
See Ey, Carn., Vol. VII, Shimoga tälūka, No. 85, and Ep. An. Rep. for 1905, p. 69. 'यच्छिष्पी व्यासराज: प्रतिमटजनतासर्वगर्वापहर्ता कर्ता ग्रन्थ चयस पतिमटविजयानीवशास्त्रीतमस्य। प्रख्याता यत्प्रशिया . wafa fundierunt e rfecu fatt: etsaarat uz Sripädarüya olakam.
