Fwd: [RamanujaMission] The Hindu blurb: HH Thirukudanthai Andavan Centenary Celebrations

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> Balaji Ramanujam <balaji7

> Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:35:39 -0700 (PDT)

> [RamanujaMission] The Hindu blurb: HH

> Thirukudanthai Andavan Centenary Celebrations

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http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/22/stories/2007032208230600.htm

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> Thirukkudanthai Andavan centenary celebrations

> begin in Srirangam

> Staff Reporter TIRUCHI: The `sadhamana

> tirunakshatra mahothsavam' (birth centenary

> celebrations) of Srirangam Srimad Andavan Sri

> Vedantha Ramanuja Mahadesikan, who was the ninth

> `Peetathipathi' of the Srirangam Srimad Andavan

> Ashram, will be held at the ashram on March 28. As

> head of the ashram, between 1963 and 1989, Srimad

> Thirukkudanthai Andavan established 15 centres of

> the ashram across the country. He was responsible

> for construction of various temples in Bangalore,

> Maharashtra, New Delhi, Secunderabad and Neyveli.

> He was also instrumental for establishing

> `sannidhis' for Sri Desikan at several places and

> also Veda, Sastra and Prabandha patasalas at

> Srirangam. Addressing presspersons here on

> Wednesday, Vice chairman of the National Executive

> Committee of the ashram V. S. Narasimhan said the

> nine-day `mahothsavam' began on Tuesday with the

> Paduka Vihara Vidwath sadas. While the sadas would

> be held till Saturday (March 24), the Veda,

> Prabantha and

> Grantha parayanams would be held from March 24 to

> 28. Fortysix scholars of Veda, Agamam and Sastra

> would be honoured on March 27 and 28 as part of the

> mahothsavam. Srimad Andavan Sri Rangaramanuja

> Mahadesikan, head of the Ashram, who identified

> these scholars, will confer the title on them, he

> said. Free spectacles would be distributed through

> the Sankara Netrayala to 2,000 persons — 800 each in

> Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra and 400 in Guwahati.

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