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<p lang="sa">has it that Venkatanatha was short of stature, wiry of

frame and blessed with very good health and marvellous

powers of endurance. During all his travels, he is said

never to have used a vehicle. He led the simplest and

most austere of lives even as an ordinary householder, a

life that Sanyasins have often failed to lead. His f

described by one of his admiring disciples, shows the

severe simplicity of his life, his perfect faith and his

untiring energy.
 
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<p lang="sa">ils bra oide
 
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<p lang="sa">ei H
 
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<p lang="sa">od Venkatanatha was one of the highest representatives

of the orthodox school of Vaishnava Brahmanas, though

his orthodoxy had nothing of the irrational dogma or the

ingenious make-shift that have accumulated around

religious faith latterly. To him, the sanctity of places

was real; the eternal presence of the Beautific Vision

hidden in the stone or metal image was real; and it is

said that he used his miraculous psychic powers very,

very rarely, and only when necessity forced him to do so.
 
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<p lang="sa">As an author, Venkatanatha is very prolific. He is

the accredited author of over a hundred works small and

big. They include (1) a long poem, named
 
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<p lang="sa">on which Appayya Dikshita has written an able

commentary; (2) another, of a thousand stanzas on the

pair of Rama'&apos;s Padukas, named ; (3) a long

dramatized version of the primary postulate of

Visishtadvaita, named संकल्पसूर्योदयं ; (4) a masterly

commentary on the Sri Bhashya of Sri Ramanuja, known

as श्रुतप्रकाशिका, because it was later copied out by a
 
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