1. Raghuttama Tirtha's oeuvre include commentaries on the works of Madhvacharya and Jayatirtha.
19 Facts About Raghuttama Tirtha
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Raghuttama Tirtha served as the fourteenth pontiff of Madhvacharya Peetha - Uttaradi Math from 1557 to 1595, which he occupied for thirty-nine years.
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Raghuttama Tirtha is considered to be one of the important seers in the history of Dvaita school of thought.
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Raghuttama Tirtha composed 10 works, consisting of commentaries on the works of Madhvacharya, Padmanabha Tirtha and Jayatirtha elaborating upon the Dvaita thought.
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Raghuttama Tirtha was born as Ramachandra into a pious family in Malkheda in the present-day Kalaburagi district in the state of Karnataka belonging to Kannada-speaking Deshastha Brahmin family to Subba Bhatta and Gangabai in 1548.
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Raghuttama Tirtha returned to the village expecting the birth of the child.
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Raghuttama Tirtha was named after Lord Rama as Ramachandra by Raghuvarya Tirtha.
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Raghuvarya Raghuttama Tirtha made arrangements to feed the child every day with the abhishekha milk of the Vyasa Kurma Saligram of the Matha.
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Raghuttama Tirtha had his Upanayana at the age of five and immediately after Upanayana was ordained as a Sannyasa.
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Raghuttama Tirtha is said to have studied for sometime after his ordinance, under a learned Pandit Adya Varadarajacharya of Manur under the direction of Raghuvarya Tirtha.
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Raghuttama Tirtha was a contemporary of Vijayindra Tirtha and Vadiraja Tirtha.
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Raghuttama Tirtha Swami entered Brindavana alive in 1596 on the auspicious day of Ekadashi.
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Bhavabodha is the general title of a majority of his works and Raghuttama Tirtha is usually called "Bhavabodhakara" or "Bhavabodhacharya".
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Raghuttama Tirtha composed these Bhavabhodas to reveal the essence and deeper meanings of Shri Madhvacharya's and Sri Jayatirtha's works.
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Raghuttama Tirtha's work Brihadaranyaka Bhavabodha is a commentary on Madhva's Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Bhashya, is considered to be his magnum opus.
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Raghuttama Tirtha's work Tattvaprakasika Bhavabodha is a commentary on Jayatirtha's Tattvaprakasika.
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Raghuttama Tirtha is regarded as a saint known for preaching the worship of Lord Vishnu regardless of caste or creed.
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Raghuttama Tirtha has made dumb to speak, mad to be intelligent, childless to beget progeny.
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Raghuttama Tirtha made each one of his disciples a repository of scholarship and academic excellence.