1. Raghavendra Tirtha served as the pontiff of the matha at Kumbakonam from 1621 to 1671.
13 Facts About Raghavendra Tirtha
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Raghavendra Tirtha was an accomplished player of the veena and he composed several songs under the name of Venu Gopala.
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Raghavendra Tirtha was born as Venkatanatha in the town of Bhuvanagiri, Tamil Nadu into a Kannada Madhva Brahmin family of Gautama Gotra of musicians and scholars.
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Raghavendra Tirtha's great-grandfather Krishna Bhatta was a tutor to the Vijayanagara emperor Krishnadevaraya.
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Raghavendra Tirtha's grandfather was Kanakachala Bhatta, and his father Thimmanna Bhatta was an accomplished scholar and musician.
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In 1624, Raghavendra Tirtha became the pontiff of the Kumbhakonam Matha, which was earlier known as Vijayeendra Matha or Dakshinadi Matha, now known by the name of Mantralaya Sri Raghavendra Swamy Matha.
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Uttaradi Math along with Vyasaraja Math and Raghavendra Math are considered to be the three premier apostolic institutions of Dvaita Vedanta and are jointly referred as Mathatraya.
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Raghavendra Tirtha died in 1671 in Mantralayam, a village on the bank of river Tungabhadra in Adoni taluk in Andhra Pradesh.
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Raghavendra Tirtha's Tantradipika is an interpretation of the Brahma Sutra from the standpoint of Dvaita, incorporating elements from Jayatirtha's Nyaya Sudha, Vyasatirtha's Tatparya Chandrika and the glosses by Vijayendra Tirtha.
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Raghavendra Tirtha wrote a commentary on Nyaya Sudha titled Nyaya Sudha Parimala.
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Raghavendra Tirtha has been eulogised by Narayanacharya in his contemporaneous biography Raghavendra Vijaya and a hymn Raghavendra Stotra by Appannacharya.
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Raghavendra Tirtha's humanitarianism is evident in the devotional poems composed in his honour by Vijaya Dasa, Gopala Dasa and Jagannatha Dasa.
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Raghavendra Tirtha has seen representation in the popular culture through Indian Cinema:.