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<p lang="sa">intellects capable of writing masterly commentaries and

of taking sides in intellectual debates on religion and

philosophy. The chief warring schools of philosophic

thought during his age were the Visishtadvaita and the
 
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<p lang="sa">masterful exponents of the former. The days of religious

persecution by the Saiva Pandyan kings were over, but

the intensity of the hatred between the Saivas on one

side and the Brahmanic Vedanta Schools on the other

was in no way modified even then. Our author had
therefore often to throw himself into the fray against

therefore often to throw himself into the fray against
the tenets of that religion also, which, by the way, was

wholly non-Aryan in origin, while the Vedanta Schools

of thought were maninly Vedic in origin.
 
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as a child, Venkatanatha was precocious, and

at a very early age, he was handed over to his maternal

uncle, Atreya Ramanujacharya, as a disciple. So quick

was he in learning that, at twently or thereabouts, he

had finished his education and had mastered the Vedas

with their commentaries, the Sastras, the Agamas, and

Sanskrit literature, his chief strength being in Logic,

Vedanta philosophy and Kavya. Even his religious

opponents recognized these special merits of his and

have conceded to him the title of कवितार्किकसिंह:.
 
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<p lang="sa">Soon he became a lecturer and his fame attracted to

him disciples year after year until his death. His restless
temperament led him to many lands, always in pursuit of

temperament led him to many lands, always in pursuit of
fresh knowledge or in answer to a challenge. Tradition
 
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