Was Vedanta Desika a disciple of Vidyateerthendra Saraswathi?

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Some 'interesting' claims by the Kanchi Matha:

 

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Sri Vidyateerthendra Saraswati : He was the son of one Sarangapani, a native of

Bilvaranya. His pre-sanyasa name was Sarvajna Vishnu. Sayana, commentator of the

Vedas, Madhava (later Vidyaranyaswami), **Vedanta Desika, the Vaisnava

scholar**, and Bharati Krisna Tirtha, were all pupils of Vidya Tirtha. After

reigning at the Kanchi Math for 73 years, he went to the Himalayas to perform

tapas. After spending 15 years in tapas, he attained videha mukti there on Sukla

Prathama in the month of Magha of the cyclic year Raktakshi (1385 AD).

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Sri Vidyateerthendra Saraswathi is supposedly the 51st Acharya of the Kanchi

Kamakoti Peetham. Please note that it is a fiction to claim that the Kanchi

Peetham even existed prior to 1820 CE.

 

http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/avhp/alt_hindu_msg.html

 

None of the biographies or hagiographies of Desikar claim this and now we have

the Kanchi Matham making unprecedented claims!

 

-Malolan

 

 

 

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