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is said to have been the master of the sixty-four kalas or branches of learning, which he employed in vanquishing a great Vira-Saiva guru who had a large following and who had his matha at Kumbhakopam. The condition under which this philosophical wrangle took place was that, if the Vira-Saiva guru succeeded, the Madhva acharys should join him with all his followers; and if the Mādhya acharya succeeded, the Vira-Saiva guru should make over his matha with its belongings to the Madhva kohārya and go away to the north, never after to return to Kumbhakonam. After an eleven days' discussion, VijayIndra came ont successful. The Vira-saiva guru was obliged to leave the place and retire to the north, making over his matha and all its belongings to his vanquisher, whose spiritual descendants still enjoy its possession. On the anniversary of this event the image of Vijayiodra is taken in procession to this matha even at the present day. When Appaya Dikshita wrote condemning the Madhva philosophy, Vijayindra Tirtha wrote several refutations of his works. He also wrote commentaries on almost all important Madhva works. The most important of his works are Chakra-Mimdhsa, Chandrikodáhrita-Nyaya-Vivarana, Nyayamrita-Vyakhya, Appayya-kapola-chepētikā, etc.
Vadiraja Tirtha, the co-student of Vijayindra under Vyasarāya Tirtha, belonged to the Baudē matha and was the fourteenth in descent from Madhyāchārya. His immediate predecessor was Vāgisa Tirtha. Vâdirāja was a great controversialist, writer and commentator. Like his co-disciple, Vijayindra Tirtha, he wrote a large number of works and commented on many of the treatises of his predecessors. He had travelled far and wide and at the end of his pilgrimages he incorporated his experiences of the several places which he visited, in bia Tirtha.prabandha. At Saudé he built a temple for Kriehộa and a mathal with the help of the Raja of Sauda, who became his admirer and disciple. Several superhuman acts are attributed to him and it is stated that he achieved them with the belp of the god Hayagriva, whose favourite he happened to be. He was a Tuļuva Brāhmaṇa by birth.
At the same period as Vijayindra and Vādirāja thore lived the Srivaishṇava acharyas Doddanyachārya of Cholasingapuram and Tātācārya of Conjeevaram. The former wrote in refutation of Appayya Dikshita's Advaita-Dipika his famous Chandamărutam; he is, on this account, known by the name of Chandamārutam Doddayyāchārya.7 The latter was the
। गामातीतमाहात्म्यो विजयोन्द्रयतीवरः। wgwfeeqat Og RTI Vijayindra-stotram. forat are achegg freanu
T ere wat feat Ibid.
Most of these are said to have been written by Vijayindra Tirtha in the temple of Mangalimbika at Kubbaköņam.
दुर्वाधप्पथ्यरचितयन्यारण्य विनष्टये। चतुख्याधिकशतग्रन्याग्नीनां प्रचीदकम् । माद्यदप्पयमातङ्गगर्वनिर्वा
पचमः। श्रीजयोन्ट्रमगन्दी मे हुहावसथी भवेत् । • The following is the traditioual list of this matha as far as Vadirija Tirths :
Madhvacharya. (a) Vishn Tirtha. (6) Vedavyasa T. (c) Vodavēdya T. (d) Verēts T. (e) Våmans T. (5) Vasudeva T. () Vēda T. (1) Varaha T. (1) Visvavedya T. 6) Visva T. (1) Vitthala T (6) Varadaraja T. (19) Vägisa T. () Vadiraja T.
See prabandha 9 of 'ritta-ratna sangrana, alias Vadiraja-rjaya, by Raghunathacharya, in the Stötra-mahodadhi, published by the Rama-tattva-prakasa Press, Belgaum. This work states that the life of Vadiraja was attempteil with poison by the Advaitins.
No. 114 of the Govt. Ep. Collection for 1901 dated §. 1636, Pramidin, mentiong Vadiraja Tirtha and his disciple.
शास्त्रविदा श्रेष्ठ: श्रीमानचयदीचितः। चित्रकूटे जितारातिरशीभत महायशाः । परतदीपिकाभिख्य ग्रन्थमप्पयदौचितः। चकार भगवडषी वधभरत: सदा। महाचार्यः सतां युवा तथा: प्रतिभट तदा। चसमाक्तनामानं fact T4 Prapan namritam, 127th Chapter.
