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″
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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 15
Throughout the 16th-17th century CE, there always persisted an undercurrent of tension and conflict in Kanchipuram amongst the “ubaya-vedaantins“. It kept simmering beneath the surface and rarely erupted in any serious external clashes or skirmishes of the ugly sort being witnessed today between Tenkalai and Vadakalai not only inside the precincts of the Kanchi SriContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins”: Part 15″