THE HINDU- Monday, July 21, 2025: Opinion: Recently, a political controversy erupted in Tamil Nadu on the issue of diverting temple funds for building colleges. Scroll down below to read an Op-Ed (Propaganda) that was published by The Hindu yesterday . This Op-Ed piece is a classic example of the kind of casuistry that theContinue reading “Hindu Temple funds: The crass casuistry of Dravidianist intellectualism in “The Hindu””
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The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya-vedaantin-s”: Part-21
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″
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 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 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″
The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya vedaantins” – Part 8
In the broad narrative of the Vadakalai sect, the events of 14th-16th century CE history that led to its claiming primacy, ownership, control, legitimacy — and of contributions made to the construction, maintenance and administration of the Kanchipuram Sri Varadaraja Perumal Temple — most prominently feature Sri Lakshmi Kumara Thathachariar, aka Sri Lakshmi Kumara ThathaContinue reading “The Decline and Fall of the “ubaya vedaantins” – Part 8”