Raghavendra Math (Mantralayam)

Short description: Hindu monastery

Sri Raghavendra Swamy Mutt, Mantralayam

Shri Raghavendra Math, better known as Rayara Math (popularly known as Shri Raghavendra Swamy Mutt, formerly known as Kumbakonam Math, Dakshinadi Mutt^[1] or Vijayendra Math) is one of the three premier Dvaita Vedanta monasteries (matha) descended from Madhvacharya through Vibudhendra Tirtha (a disciple of Ramchandra Tirtha) and their disciples based in Mantralayam. Raghavendra Matha is located on the bank of Tungabhadra River in Mantralayam in Adoni taluk of Kurnool district in Andhra Pradesh, India .^[2]^[3]

Raghavendra Math, along with Uttaradi Math and Vyasaraja Math are considered to be the three premier apostolic institutions of Dvaita Vedanta and are jointly referred as Mathatraya .^[4]^[5]^[6] It is the pontiffs and pandits of the Mathatraya that have been the principle architects of post-Madhva Dvaita Vedanta through the centuries.^[7]

History

Raghavendra Math is one of three mathas descended from Jagadguru Shri Madhvacharya through Jayatirtha, the other two being Uttaradi Math and Vyasaraja Math. Earlier the mutt was known as Kumbhakonam Matha. Later the name of this matha was changed to Sri Vijayendra Mutt after Vijayendra Tirtha by Sudhindra Tirtha, a disciple and successor to the pontificate of Kumbakonam Matha after Vijayindra Tirtha. After Sudhindra Tirtha his disciple, the most venerated dvaita saint Raghavendra Tirtha continued in the pontifical lineage as the pontiff of the matha. After small stay at Kumbakonam, he seems to have gone on a pilgrimage tour visiting Rameshwaram, Ramnad, Srirangam, and Mathura then he moved westwards to Udupi and Subramanya, and then to Pandharpur, Kolhapur and Bijapur. At Kolhapur, he is said to have made long stay and at Bijapur, he made many converts.^[8] After that he returned Ultimately to Kumbakonam. By 1663 he left to Mysore where he got grant from Dodda Devaraya Odeyar. Later he moved to further north and finally settled down at Mantralayam, a village on bank of river Tungabhadra in Adoni taluk in Andhra Pradesh. There on the sacred river he took Samadhi in 1671.^[9]

The matha was later named after Raghavendra Tirtha as Raghavendra Matha.

Guru Parampara

Madhvacharya
Padmanabha Tirtha
Narahari Tirtha
Madhava Tirtha
Akshobhya Tirtha
Jayatirtha
Vidyadhiraja Tirtha
Kavindra Thirtha
Vaageesha Thirtha
Ramachandra Tirtha
Vibudhendra Tirtha
Jitamitra Tirtha
Raghunandana Tirtha
Surendra Tirtha
Vijayeendra Tirtha
Sudhindra Tirtha
Raghavendra Tirtha
Yogeendra Tirtha
Sooreendra Tirtha
Sumateendra Tirtha
Upendra Tirtha
Vadeendra Tirtha
Vasudhendra Tirtha
Varadendra Tirtha
Dheerendra Tirtha
Bhuvanendra Tirtha
Subodhendra Tirtha
Sujanendra Tirtha
Sujnanendra Tirtha
Sudharmendra Tirtha
Sugunendra Tirtha
Suprajnendra Tirtha
Sukrutheendra Tirtha
Susheelendra Tirtha
Suvrateendra Tirtha
Suyameendra Tirtha
Sujayeendra Tirtha
Sushameendra Tirtha
Suyateendra Tirtha
Subudhendra Tirtha – Present Pontiff^[10]

References

↑ Census of India, 1961, Volume 2, Issue 6, Part 32. Office of the Registrar General Manager of Publications. 1962. p. 86. https://books.google.co.in/books?id=_dAcAQAAMAAJ. "Sri Raghavendraswamy Mutt at Mantralaya is also known as Kumbhakonam Mutt and Dakshinadi Mutt i.e., belonging to South."
↑ Venkataraya Narayan Kudva (1972). History of the Dakshinatya Saraswats. Samyukta Gowda Saraswata Sabha. p. 196. https://books.google.com/books?id=x0NuAAAAMAAJ.
↑ Purabhilekh-puratatva: Journal of the Directorate of Archives, Archaeology and Museum, Panaji-Goa, Volume 2. The Directorate. 2001. p. 90. https://books.google.com/books?id=WJZPAQAAMAAJ. "This matha was established by one Vibhdeendra Teertha in the middle of the 15th century. He was the spiritual progenitor of Sri Ramachandra Teertha of the Uttaradi matha. Both belong to Dvaita philosophy."
↑ Sharma 2000, p. 199.
↑ Steven Rosen (30 November 1994). Vaisnavism. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. p. 132. ISBN 9788120812352. https://books.google.com/books?id=4IrQkw5x2o4C&pg=PA132.
↑ Sharma 2000, p. 193.
↑ B. N. Hebbar (2004). Viśiṣṭādvaita and Dvaita: A Systematic and Comparative Study of the Two Schools of Vedānta with Special Reference to Some Doctrinal Controversies. Bharatiya Granth Niketan. p. 29. ISBN 9788189211011. https://books.google.com/books?id=NrHWAAAAMAAJ.
↑ Sharma 2000, p. 483.
↑ Sharma 2000, p. 484.
↑ "Subudhendra Tirtha takes charge of Mantralayam math". The Hindu. https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/subudhendra-tirtha-takes-charge-of-mantralayam-math/article5774415.ece.

Bibliography

Sharma, B. N. Krishnamurti (2000). A History of the Dvaita School of Vedānta and Its Literature, Vol 1. 3rd Edition. Motilal Banarsidass (2008 Reprint). ISBN 978-8120815759.

External links

Raghavendra Math official website
Website on Dvaita

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[1] Census of India, 1961, Volume 2, Issue 6, Part 32. Office of the Registrar General Manager of Publications. 1962. p. 86. https://books.google.co.in/books?id=_dAcAQAAMAAJ. "Sri Raghavendraswamy Mutt at Mantralaya is also known as Kumbhakonam Mutt and Dakshinadi Mutt i.e., belonging to South."

[2] Venkataraya Narayan Kudva (1972). History of the Dakshinatya Saraswats. Samyukta Gowda Saraswata Sabha. p. 196. https://books.google.com/books?id=x0NuAAAAMAAJ.

[3] Purabhilekh-puratatva: Journal of the Directorate of Archives, Archaeology and Museum, Panaji-Goa, Volume 2. The Directorate. 2001. p. 90. https://books.google.com/books?id=WJZPAQAAMAAJ. "This matha was established by one Vibhdeendra Teertha in the middle of the 15th century. He was the spiritual progenitor of Sri Ramachandra Teertha of the Uttaradi matha. Both belong to Dvaita philosophy."

[FOOTNOTESharma2000199-4] Sharma 2000, p. 199.

[5] Steven Rosen (30 November 1994). Vaisnavism. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. p. 132. ISBN 9788120812352. https://books.google.com/books?id=4IrQkw5x2o4C&pg=PA132.

[FOOTNOTESharma2000193-6] Sharma 2000, p. 193.

[7] B. N. Hebbar (2004). Viśiṣṭādvaita and Dvaita: A Systematic and Comparative Study of the Two Schools of Vedānta with Special Reference to Some Doctrinal Controversies. Bharatiya Granth Niketan. p. 29. ISBN 9788189211011. https://books.google.com/books?id=NrHWAAAAMAAJ.

[FOOTNOTESharma2000483-8] Sharma 2000, p. 483.

[FOOTNOTESharma2000484-9] Sharma 2000, p. 484.

[10] "Subudhendra Tirtha takes charge of Mantralayam math". The Hindu. https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/subudhendra-tirtha-takes-charge-of-mantralayam-math/article5774415.ece.