Today is the Aradhana Day of Vasudendra Tirtharu of Rayara Mutt parampara.

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On this day of Aradhana of Sri.Vasudendra Tirtharu, let us get

acquainted with this great siant's life history and works.

 

Sree Vasudendra Tirtharu (ashrama from 1750 - 1761), pUrvAshrama name

is Sri PurushOttamAchrya. HH's lineage, both in purvAshrama and

turiyAshrama, is a great lineage descending from none other than

Gurusarvobhouma Sri.Ragavendra prabhu.

 

Sri.Raghvendra Tirtha's purvAshrama son is Sri.Laxminarayanachrya.

Sri. Laxminarayanacharya has a son Sri.Purushottamachrya; and in turn

he has two sons – Sri.Srinivascharya and Sri.Venugopalacharaya.

 

Among these two great grandsons of Rayara purvashrama, Sri.

Srinivascharya subsequently becomes Sri.Vaadindra Tirtha, author of

much celebrated work `guru-guNa-stavana' on Mantralaya Prabhu !

 

Second great grandson, Sri.Venugopalachraya in turn had three sons;

Sri.Purushottamacharya, Sri.Balaramacharya and

Sri.Laxminarayanacharya. All these three sons subsequently became

three great saints in Rayara mutt parampara!. They are Sri.Vasudendra

Tirtha, Sri.Varadendra Tirtha and Sri.Bhuvanendra Tirtha

respectively. What a soubhAgya for Sri.Venugopalacharya !

 

First son, Sri.Purushottamacharya has studied all shAstras directly

under Sri.Vaadindra Tirtha Himself and he become HH's beloved sishya.

He was given sanyasa in 1743-44 AD and named as " Sree Vasudendra

Tirtha " . Among Sri.Vasudendra Tirtha's works, what we have today is

only two works – tantrasara vyakhyAna and guruguNastavana vyakhyana *

 

Sri Vasudendra Tirtha gave sanyasashrama to His purvashrama brother

Sri.Balaramacharya in 1759 and named him as Sri.Varadendra Tirtha.

Later HH has reached SriHari's adobe at the place called Kenchanna

gudda on the bank of river Tungabhadra.

 

 

 

* There is another vyakhyana on guruguNastavana by Sri.Dhirendra

Tirtha created in his purvashrama as Sri. Jayaramacharya.

Sri.Jayaramacharya is none other than purvasharama son of

Sri.Vaadindra Tirtha himself and subsequently took sanyasa in front

of Sri.Vijayeendra's Brundavana at Kumbakonam and known as

Sri.Dheerendra Tirtha of Hosaritti.

 

 

vasudAtala vikhyatam vairargyAdi guNarNavaM

vEda vEdanga chaturam vasudEndra guruM bhaje ||

 

 

(Source courtesy: Sri.A.R.panchamuki's 2000 edition of Guru Guna

Stavana, published by Sri.Raghavendratirtha pratistanam, Dharwar)

 

Sri Kishnarpanamastu.

Srinivas Kotekal

Ashwija bahuLa saptami, 2008 AD