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bos de Jo aldagno atoplotni

has Biographical Sketch of the Author.lo
airleonolide
 
ais bon sti
 

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Jon Sri Venkatanatha, the author of this little poem, is

better known by his titular name Vedanta Desika, i.e.,

the Preceptor in Vedanta Philosophy. He was born,

according to a sloka that records the date of his birth, in

1191 of the Salivahana Era, corresponding to 1269 A. D.

This agrees well with the dates of the events of his life

and may be taken to be correct. He is said to have lived

102 years, and so he belongs to the 13th and 14th

centuries A. D.
 
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He was born in a village named Tuppli, near

Conjeevaram. His father was a learned Pandit, named

Ananta Suri or Anantacharya, and his mother was

Tothamba. They were Vaishnava Brahmanas of the

Vadagalai Sect, i.e., of the Northern culture. It is said
that his mother, who had been childless for a long time,
dreamt one night that she had swallowed a bell in
obedience to the orders of a supernatural being, and that

that his mother, who had been childless for a long time,
dreamt one night that she had swallowed a bell in
obedience to the orders of a supernatural being, and that
the birth of Venkatanatha was the result; he is thus

known as the aaa, or the incarnation of the bell used

during the worship of Vishnu in temples. Setting aside

the supernatural element, his ringing voice and his irrefu-

table logic might well have earned him that title.
 
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dor His age was an age of intense religious activity in

Southern India, and naturally produced the keenest of
 
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