Harivāyustuti with English Translation /10

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Trivikrama Pandḍita 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 Subramanṇya Pandḍita, a Tulu brahmin, who
belonged to the a
belonged to the āngirasa gotra. Subramanṇya Pandita who
ḍita who
hailed from the Likuca family was noted for his poetic

and scholarly attainments. His pious wife who was a

devotee of Lord Śrī Viṣṇu prayed to be blessed with
children enjoying long life. In due course by the joint
graces of Sri Vișņu Hari and Hara she was blessed with three
children the eldest of whom was Trivikrama Panḍita. It is
said that this child "lisprayed 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 Uşaṣāharaṇa, a Śanskrit kāvya of great beauty, in

nine cantos dealing with the love-affair of Usa and
ṣā 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
he
continued to study and master it at the instance of his
friends. At the advent of Trivikrama Panḍita on the
Vedāntic horizon others like Bhānu Panḍita 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 saguṇōpasanăā. He realised that all the

twenty one bhāṣyas known during his time on the Brahma
 
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