srIvaishNavam in North India

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srImathE rAmAnujAya namah

 

dear bhAgavathAs,

 

we have had a couple of posts on srIvaishNavam in

North India. adiyEn would like to share some of the

information I have on that -

 

Even from rAmAnujA's times, there has been an

influence in North India of srIvaishNavam - The

rAmAnandi movement traces its roots to the rAmAnuja

sampradAya.

 

In recent times, HH vAnamAmalai jIyar svAmi in the

early to mid parts of this century, and jagadguru srI.

prativAdi bayankaram ananthAchAr svAmi travelled

extensively in North India, and spread the rAmAnuja

sampradAya there. To this day, there are tens of

thousands of followers of the vAnamAmalai matam, and

srI PB svAmis of kAnchipuram in North India.

 

The famous rangAji mandir in ayOdhya was built by a

scion of the PB family, and is still being run by a

descendant of the family. In the earlier parts of this

century, there was a jIyar that adorned the pattam of

srIranga nArAyaNa rAmAnuja pItam called ayOdhyA

rAmAnuja jIyar. One of the scions of this family

translated thiruvAymozhi verse for verse, as well as

some of the commentaries into sanskrit, and

contributed to the spread of the divine wisdom of the

AzhvArs in North India. The famous panasvAdi temple

in bombay was built largely through the influence of

srI. PB anantAchAr svAmi. Similarly in Ajmer, pushkar,

and various parts of rAjasthAn, there are a large

number of followers of the rAmAnuja sampradAya thanks

largely to srI. PB anantAchAr svAmi.

 

In parts of uttarAnchal, parts of UP, as well as

parts of bihar, there are a large number of rAmAnuja

sampradAya followers, who in fact run a lot of vEda

pAtasAlAs and are administrators of various temples.

 

There is a large following, in gujarat (ahmedabad and

surroundings), for thirumalai anandAnpiLLai

akkArakkani svAmi (vaikuntavAsi), and currently his

illustrious son, who is quite young, and very learned.

We are fortunate enough in that this svAmi has

recently joined the bhakti list.

 

In orissa, near the pUri jagahhAdh temple, there is a

uttara rAmAnuja mutt, that is quite large and has a

large number of sAdhus that follow the rAmAnuja

sampradAya. Recently, there was a book published,

about the jagannath temple, and it has beautiful

photos of the mutts surrounding the temple. The

rAmAnuja matam has beautiful, full-wall paintings of

srI rAmAnuja and his immediate shisyAs that are quite

absorbing to see. To my knowledge, those are the

largest paintings of emperumAnAr that are present.

 

in nepal, there is a large following for the

vAnamAmalai mutt. To this day, hundreds of people from

nEpAl travel all the way to vAnamAmalai, at the

southern tip of the subcontinent, to gain initiation

into the sampradAyam and to worship the divya dEsams

in that part of the world.

 

AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE saraNam,

adiyEn madhurakavi dAsan,

Varadhan

 

 

 

 

 

 

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You Wrote,

 

The famous rangAji mandir in ayOdhya was built by a

scion of the PB family, and is still being run by a

descendant of the family. In the earlier parts of this

century, there was a jIyar that adorned the pattam of

srIranga nArAyaNa rAmAnuja pItam called ayOdhyA

rAmAnuja jIyar. One of the scions of this family

translated thiruvAymozhi verse for verse, as well as

some of the commentaries into sanskrit, and

contributed to the spread of the divine wisdom of the

AzhvArs in North India. The famous panasvAdi temple

in bombay was built largely through the influence of

srI. PB anantAchAr svAmi. Similarly in Ajmer, pushkar,

and various parts of rAjasthAn, there are a large

number of followers of the rAmAnuja sampradAya thanks

largely to srI. PB anantAchAr svAmi.

 

 

Respected Sri Varadan,

 

The Rangnathji Mandir is in fact in Brindavan and is managed by decentants

of

PB Swamy,(his Great grand son , Balak Swamy is well respected in that

area)

 

The temple in Ayodya, is Ammaji Mandir, was build by a person belonging to

Mandayam. Even today, this temple is

managed by a trust created by a Judge of Mandyam family and this trust is

operated from Triplicane Chennai.

 

 

Thanks

KM Narayanan