From the time Sri Manavaala Maamuni passed away in Sri Rangam in 1450 CE until the fall of the great Vijayanagar Empire in the great battle of Talikota in January 1565 CE when the last of the Aravidu Kings, Raama Raja was beheaded by the Bahmani Sultans, the Sri Vaishnava “ubaya vedaantins” continued to skirmishContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part-21″
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The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part 20
There can be no doubt that it was the Sri Rangam hinterland that bore the far greater brunt of the Ghaznivid and Malik Kafur depredations than Kanchipuram. (Please see the map in Part-18). The state of ruin and penury to which the Vishnu temples in the southern provinces in and around the Sri Rangam templeContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part 20″
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part 19
The well-known Sri Vaishnava scholar-historian (late) Sri. T.S.Parthasarathy (1913-2006, also Carnatic musicologist, and Expert Committee Member of the Madras Music Academy https://srutimag.blogspot.com/2018/09/ts-parthasarathy.html ) was a family friend of my parents. One day, when we visited him at his house, having learnt I was avidly interested in Sri Vaishnavite history as a serious student, he wasContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part 19″
The element of “kainkaryam” in the conception of “moksham” in “Sri Raamaanuja Siddhaantham”
A friend of mine who is a serious student of Sri Vaishnava philosophy posed the following question to me via an email this morning. And my reply to him also is reproduced below. On 17 Jun 2022, at 12:05 PM, Ranga Rajan wrote: Swamin,Hope you remember me—making a small presentation on your book in theContinue reading “The element of “kainkaryam” in the conception of “moksham” in “Sri Raamaanuja Siddhaantham””
THE HINDU 17 June 2022 carries a review of my recently published book “The Nondescript God – Abstraction or Paragon”?
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part 18
Any modern-minded young Sri Vaishnava today, wishing to know about the historical background of his community and its culture, will hardly be able to find anywhere such a thing as an authentic and objective record of a common, consistent and credible history of the “ubaya-vedaantins”. What he or she however will instead come across aplentyContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part 18″
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part 17
From a reading of the “Sri Rangam Koil ozhukku”, it is possible to glean quite a few snippets of 15th to 18th century CE history during which the enormous and legendary contributions successive generations of the noble “Utthama Nambi” family made to the expansion, care, maintenance and development of the Sri Rangam temple thanks inContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part 17″
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part 16
One of the commonest Tenkalai historical narratives that is dissonant from the Vadakalai one, is that the latter drew far greater legitimacy for power to control the Sri Kanchi Devarajaperumal Temple from the Vijayanagar Royal Court than from Sri Ramanujacharya himself. For well over 500 year, the Thaathaacharyas of Kanchi enjoyed the rights and privilegesContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part 16″
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins”: Part 14
The narrative of the Tenkalai challenging the Legitimacy of the Kanchipuram Thathaacharya clan’s exercise of Power and influence over the Sri Varadaraja Perumal temple since the 15th century CE is founded on what the Vadakalai sect considers to be fabricated, specious and wholly untenable from the viewpoint of “ubaya vedaanta sampradaayam”. Only because the ThaathaacharyasContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins”: Part 14″
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins”: Part 13
“SrIranga-mangaLa-nidhim karuNAnivAsam SrIvenkaTAdri-SikharAlaya-kAlamegham | SrIhastiSaila-Sikharojjvala-pArijAtam SrISam-namAmi SirasA yaduSaila-dIpam || It is an observable fact of history that at three of the above four great capital temple-towns of Sri Vaishnavas the above shloka names — viz. Tirumala, Sri Rangam and Melkote –Sri Ramanujacharya, personally undertook the responsibility for reforming the then prevailing and later institutionalizing aContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins”: Part 13″