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spiritual teacher of Aliya Rama-Raya and lived with him for some time at Chandragiri, and latterly settled down at Kāñchi. He wrote a work named the Pancha-mata-bhafijanam; therefore, he is called Panoha-mata-bhañjanam Tātāchārya. His son was the famous Srinivāsārya, better known by the names Lakshmikamāra Tātācbārya and Koti-kanya-danan Tātāc hārya. He was the guru of Venkatapatidēvarāya I.; he performed the abhishēka ceremony on the coronation of this king.
Raghavendra Tirtha was, like his guru Sudbindra and his illustrious predecessor Vijayindra, a Kannada Brāhman. He was ordained a sannyasin rather late in life. Before this event he went by the name of Vēņivenkata-bhatta. According to the matha list, he came to the pontificate in $. 1545, Rudhirodgāri, and continued till the Srāvana vadya 2nd of s. 1593, Virodhikrit, thus reigning for a period of 47 years and 5 months. Tradition asserts that he was a black, well built man and that his external appearance often belied bis mental greatness. He is also accredited with supernatural powers, which are said to be felt to this day at the place of interment of his remains. But to the Mādhvas his greatness does not lie so much in his physical powers as in his mental capabilities. He was also a prolific writer and a powerful controversialist. He died at Mantrālaya on the bank of the Tungabhadra.
At the end of the record it is stated that the composer of the fasana was Svayambha, the son of Sabhāpati. We come across the names Sabhāpati, Svayambhu, Kāmakoti, Rāma, etc., as the composers of the Vijayanagara documents of the later dynasties. From a large number of sources it has become possible now to learn something about the relationship esisting between the various persons mentioned above. From the Viļāppäkkam and the Kūniyñr plates we learn that Rāma-kavi, their author, was the son and grand-son respectively of Kāmakoti and Sabhāpati. The present plates and the British Museum Plates of Sadāsivadēvarāya state that Svayambhi was the son of Sabhāpati. The DalavĀy-agrahāram plates of Ativirerāma Pandya inform us that Rājanātha, the son of Svayambhu, was the composer of that document. This enterprising son of the fasana-composer of the court of the
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maraiera tra refert. Ibid. Tartnere TrattoCATHI श्रीवाटपति म महात्मा भगवत्परः । लचौकुमारसातार्य महात्मानमशिनियत् ।
Aparzafaqa: TATUA: Ibid. Compare the paper on the Daļaviyagrabāram Plates of Venkatapatidēvariya, above, pp. 161 and ff also preceding foot-note.
Compare Ep. Ind., Vol. III, p. 158. (Sabhāpati). Nellore Inscrs., C. P., Nos. 10 and 13, (Sabhápati). Ep. Ind., Vol. III, p. 260, (Rama-kavi). Nellore Inscrs., C. P., No. 7, (Rama-kari). Ep. Ind., Vol. IV, p. 277, (Ráms-kavi). Ep. Ind., Vol. IV, p. 22, (Sabhapati Svayambhu). Nellore Inscre., C. P., No. 14, (Sabhāpati Svayambbû). 5 Ep. Ind., Vol. IV, pp. 269 ff. and Vol. III, pp. 236 ff. • Ibid., Vol. IV, pp. 1 ff.
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चददिति राजनाथपुरभिळकवितस्स्य(ख) यंभुवनः । See Travancore Archeological Series, Vol. I, p. 142.
