If the process of transfer of the control and administration of the Tirumala Temple by the East India Company-appointed Collector to the traditional custodians in the Sri Vaishnava community was messy and complex, that of the Kanchipuram Sri Varadarajaswamy Temple was bitterly rancorous and disputatious. The Tenkalai-s for long since the time of Sri AzhagiyaContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins”: Part-35″
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The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part-23
While the rest of the country descended into chaos, anarchy and slavery throughout the 15th to the 18th century CE resulting from wars, conquests and the tyranny of Muslim and British Imperialistic rule, the Sri Vaishnavas of Tamil country themselves descended into a private anarchy of their own making. The war between Tipu Sultan andContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part-23″
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins” – Part 9
When one reads both the narratives of the Tenkalai and Vadakalai sects in the way I have tried to recapitulate them in the last two Parts (7 and 8) — with focus on bland, simple and matter-of-fact content sifted away as much as possible from otherwise rather distracting hagiographical excess and effusion — it isContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins” – Part 9″
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins” – Part 7
The Tenkalai narrative about how the Kanchipuram Sri Devarajaswamy Perumal temple in the 15th century came to be owned and protected by members of their sect begins with the introduction of one of their most venerated Acharyas. His name was Sri Azhagiya Manavaala Jiyar. Who was he? A website http://koyil.org/index.php/vadhikesariazhagiyamanavalajiyarmutt/ provides a brief hagiography ofContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins” – Part 7″
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins” – Part 6
The narrative of the Tenkalai sect with regard to their claim to legitimacy in asserting that the Kanchi Varadaraja Temple belongs — lock, stock and barrel — to their “sampradaaya“, tradition and custom is based mostly on the version of 15th-16th century CE history that they have constructed and posit. The Vadakalai sect, however, onContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins” – Part 6″
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya vedaantins” – Part 5
The history of the whole world tells us clearly that at the root of all great human conflicts is the inability of Man to know Truth first and to then Reconcile himself to it. Conflicts arise and continue to fester and outrage us only because one side of the conflict believes its version of TruthContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya vedaantins” – Part 5”