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direction of tolerance and declared that all the
systems were not far from Advaitam. If Desikar
composed 50 slokas in praise of Varadaraja of
Kanchi, Dikshitar composed more than double that
number in honour of the same Deity.
The city of Kanchi was a famous seat of learn-
ing for a long time. It was the premier city of
the Tundira Mandalam. We are told by Dikshitar
that the kingdom was named after king Tun-
dira who by the command of Lord Siva esta-
blished throughout his dominions institutions for
Vedic and Sastraic culture. Desikar refers to the
Tundira Mandalam in his Hamsa Sandesam. He
took a great patriotic pride in the land of his birth
and in all the holy shrines there including the
famous Saiva shrine at Kanchi. The Brahmotsava
of Kanchi Varadaraja appears to have attracted
the Royalty of the Kingdom of Vijayanagar.
Dikshitar's birth-place was not very far from
Kanchi and he appears to have felt a patriotic
pride in the holy temples in the city including
Varadaraja's. The large parties of Vedic chanters
following the Deity in His rounds must have had
a peculiar charm for our author who was an
ocean of Vedic learning. We have heard that his
illustrious descendant, the late Mahamahopadhyaya
direction of tolerance and declared that all the
systems were not far from Advaitam. If Desikar
composed 50 slokas in praise of Varadaraja of
Kanchi, Dikshitar composed more than double that
number in honour of the same Deity.
The city of Kanchi was a famous seat of learn-
ing for a long time. It was the premier city of
the Tundira Mandalam. We are told by Dikshitar
that the kingdom was named after king Tun-
dira who by the command of Lord Siva esta-
blished throughout his dominions institutions for
Vedic and Sastraic culture. Desikar refers to the
Tundira Mandalam in his Hamsa Sandesam. He
took a great patriotic pride in the land of his birth
and in all the holy shrines there including the
famous Saiva shrine at Kanchi. The Brahmotsava
of Kanchi Varadaraja appears to have attracted
the Royalty of the Kingdom of Vijayanagar.
Dikshitar's birth-place was not very far from
Kanchi and he appears to have felt a patriotic
pride in the holy temples in the city including
Varadaraja's. The large parties of Vedic chanters
following the Deity in His rounds must have had
a peculiar charm for our author who was an
ocean of Vedic learning. We have heard that his
illustrious descendant, the late Mahamahopadhyaya