1. Ayee Jananyacharya or Devaraja Perumal was a Hindu Sri Vaishnava religious leader, great saint, and one of the important propagator of the Sri Vaishnavism tradition.
13 Facts About Ayee Jananyacharya
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Sri Jananyacharya Swami was Seventh in the lineage of Sri Ramanujacharya.
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Ayee Jananyacharya was a scholar in ubhaya vedanta who took Vishishtadvaita school of vedanta to the next level and widely popularized and propagated the Sri Vaishnava tradition.
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Ayee Jananyacharya Swamy was born in 1341 at Melukote in Karnataka to Asuri Lakshmanacharya in the month of Tula Karthika and belongs to the lineage of Harita gotra.
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Ayee Jananyacharya swamy got his sacred thread ceremony and pancha samskaram at a very early age and started his education of Veda, vedanga and Divya Prabhandam from his father.
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Ayee Jananyacharya Swamy lived in Melukote performing the nithya kainkaryam to Lord Shelvapillai, he had a unique and special service of offering the cow milk to the almighty Shelvapillai on daily basis.
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Ayee Jananyacharya continued living in Melukote and involved himself completely in writing commentaries for Thiruppavai, Sri vachana Bushanam and Acharya Hrudayam.
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Ayee Jananyacharya composed Kurungi Stotra and few padya and gadya in Tamil and Sanskrit language.
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Ayee Jananyacharya swamy explained the secrets of Acharya Hrudayam to Mamunigal, post which the Mamunigal adored Ayee Jananyacharya Swamy as his acharya and praised him with a Stotram as follows.
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Ayee Jananyacharya swamy contributed a lot to the Sri Vaishnava literature both in Tamil and Sanskrit.
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Ayee Jananyacharya swamy spent his final days continuing his nithya kainkaryam to melukote cheluva narayana.
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Ayee Jananyacharya swamy attained the supreme abode of Paramapadam on 1445CE after serving Thirunarayanan for almost 105 years and Swami's brindavan is located near the Melukote Kalyani behind Bhuvaneshwari mantapa and can be seen on the way to Sri Yoga Narasimha Swamy temple.
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An idol of Ayee Jananyacharya swamy was installed in the varaha sannidhi opposite to Lord Betarayaswamy temple at Denkanikottai and a stone carving resembling Ayee swamy was installed on the foot steps of Melukote Pushkarini where swamy used to sit for his Nithya japa.