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“Words of Wisdom” from Sri Mukkur Azhagiyasingar “arul mozhigal”: A TIFF OVER TIFFIN!

It was my privilege to translate into English the Tamil epistle of HH Sri Mukkur Azhasingar, the 44th Pontiff of Sri Ahobila Mutt, on “A Tiff over Tiffin” (“saapaattu sandai”) and it has been published in the June 2022 issue of “VAINAVAN KURAL ”, “Spiritual English Monthly magazine” published from Chennai. Sudarshan Madabushi

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 HINDU 17 June 2022 carries a review of my recently published book “The Nondescript God – Abstraction or Paragon”?

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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-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 11

The major dissonances amongst the Tenkalai and Vadakalai versions of the history of the Kanchi Sri Varadaraja Perumal temple are three in number: A. Historicity or timeline B. Power and Legitimacy: C. Language as a cultural badge …. or baggage. *********************************** HISTORICITY: There is a significant difference in the way the Tenkalai and Vadakalai viewContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantins” – Part 11″

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 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″

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The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya vedaantins” – Part 4

It was during the period after the Vijayanagar Empire fell — and its vassal kingdoms in Tamil Nadu dissolved too and disappeared eventually– that the differences and distinctions between North/South, Kanchipuram/Sri Rangam, Sanskrit/Tamil and the Tenkalai/Vadakalai identities became increasingly pronounced in the “ubaya vedanta” fold. In the SriRangam region, a galaxy of scholars from theContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya vedaantins” – Part 4″