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Trivikrama Pandita who, according to Dr. B. N. K. Sharma
)vide his History of Dvaita School of Vedanta and Its
Literature, Vol. I) flourished C. 1258 to 1320, was the
eldest son of Subramanya Pandita, a Tulu brahmin, who
belonged to the angirasa gotra. Subramanya Pandita who
hailed from the Likuca family was noted for his poetic
and scholarly attainments. His pious wife who was a
devotee of Lord Sri Vișņu prayed to be blessed with
children enjoying long life. In due course by the joint
graces of Sri Hari and Hara she was blessed with three
children the eldest of whom was Trivikrama Pandita. It is
said that this child "lisped in mumbers, for the numbers
came ". Nārāyaṇa Pandita says that his father would
compose faultless poetry even when he was a child speaking
indistinctly and gradually became a great poet even as the
new-risen sun becomes brighter and brighter as the day
wears on (M. V. XIII-47). While yet in his teens he com-
posed the Uşaharaṇa, a Śanskrit kāvya of great beauty, in
nine cantos dealing with the love-affair of Usa and
Aniruddha. Though not convinced by advaita śästra he
continued to study and master it at the instance of his
friends. At the advent of Trivikrama Pandita on the
Vedāntic horizon others like Bhanu Pandita sank into
paleness. He had so well mastered the entire advaita śāstra
consisting of over a lakh of granthas that he could expound
and defend it superbly.
"There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken
at the flood, leads on to fortune says Shakesphere in a
different context. One day Subramaṇya Panḍita told his son that
the upāsanā of nirguna brahman would not fetch the desired
mokṣa. Consequently Trivikrama Pandita wished to study also
the śastras advocating saguṇōpasană. He realised that all the
twenty one bhāṣyas known during his time on the Brahma
""
Trivikrama Pandita who, according to Dr. B. N. K. Sharma
)vide his History of Dvaita School of Vedanta and Its
Literature, Vol. I) flourished C. 1258 to 1320, was the
eldest son of Subramanya Pandita, a Tulu brahmin, who
belonged to the angirasa gotra. Subramanya Pandita who
hailed from the Likuca family was noted for his poetic
and scholarly attainments. His pious wife who was a
devotee of Lord Sri Vișņu prayed to be blessed with
children enjoying long life. In due course by the joint
graces of Sri Hari and Hara she was blessed with three
children the eldest of whom was Trivikrama Pandita. It is
said that this child "lisped in mumbers, for the numbers
came ". Nārāyaṇa Pandita says that his father would
compose faultless poetry even when he was a child speaking
indistinctly and gradually became a great poet even as the
new-risen sun becomes brighter and brighter as the day
wears on (M. V. XIII-47). While yet in his teens he com-
posed the Uşaharaṇa, a Śanskrit kāvya of great beauty, in
nine cantos dealing with the love-affair of Usa and
Aniruddha. Though not convinced by advaita śästra he
continued to study and master it at the instance of his
friends. At the advent of Trivikrama Pandita on the
Vedāntic horizon others like Bhanu Pandita sank into
paleness. He had so well mastered the entire advaita śāstra
consisting of over a lakh of granthas that he could expound
and defend it superbly.
"There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken
at the flood, leads on to fortune says Shakesphere in a
different context. One day Subramaṇya Panḍita told his son that
the upāsanā of nirguna brahman would not fetch the desired
mokṣa. Consequently Trivikrama Pandita wished to study also
the śastras advocating saguṇōpasană. He realised that all the
twenty one bhāṣyas known during his time on the Brahma
""