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9. Krishna Devaraya, the greatest emperor of Vijaya-
nagar, is to this day remembered with affectionate pride in
the Telugu country and the works of the Telugu poets whom
he patronized keep his memory green there. We in Mysore
have no less reason to be proud of him. He was a Kannada
Sovereign. He was a son-in-law of a Prince of Mysore
and he was the disciple of the great Guru Vyasaraya of the
Mysore country who achieved a continental fame and whose
works are still a living fount of thought and inspiration to
students of Indian philosophy.
10. The influence of Vyasaraya at Vijayanagar and on
Hindu thought in the whole of India was not less than that
of Vidyaranya who died about a century before Vyasaraya
sat in state in Vijayanagar and received the homage of King
Narasa. Vallabhacharya and Chaitanya were younger con-
temporaries of Vyasaraya. Chaitanya took Sanyasa from an
ascetic of Vyasaraya's line. Vallabhacharya was honoured
in Krishna Devaraya's Court in an assembly in which
Vyasaraya presided. Kavi Karnapura of Bengal refers in
his Gourangani desa Dipika to the works of Vyasaraya as
the Vishnu Samhita. Vyasaraya was the Guru of a dis-
tinguished galaxy of students Vijayendra, Vadiraja, Lakshmi-
kanta and others, who, by their works and students, kept
bright the firmament of Indian philosophical thought for a
long time after he himself disappeared. Till the middle of
the seventeenth century and so long as the last kings of the
Vijayanagar line and their feudatories of Tanjore and Madura
ruled and the old order of things still continued, support
and criticism of Vyasaraya's works continued to be the
occupation of the learned in philosophy. Madhusudana
Sarasvati, Appayya Dikshita, Vijayendra Swami, Tarangini
nagar, is to this day remembered with affectionate pride in
the Telugu country and the works of the Telugu poets whom
he patronized keep his memory green there. We in Mysore
have no less reason to be proud of him. He was a Kannada
Sovereign. He was a son-in-law of a Prince of Mysore
and he was the disciple of the great Guru Vyasaraya of the
Mysore country who achieved a continental fame and whose
works are still a living fount of thought and inspiration to
students of Indian philosophy.
10. The influence of Vyasaraya at Vijayanagar and on
Hindu thought in the whole of India was not less than that
of Vidyaranya who died about a century before Vyasaraya
sat in state in Vijayanagar and received the homage of King
Narasa. Vallabhacharya and Chaitanya were younger con-
temporaries of Vyasaraya. Chaitanya took Sanyasa from an
ascetic of Vyasaraya's line. Vallabhacharya was honoured
in Krishna Devaraya's Court in an assembly in which
Vyasaraya presided. Kavi Karnapura of Bengal refers in
his Gourangani desa Dipika to the works of Vyasaraya as
the Vishnu Samhita. Vyasaraya was the Guru of a dis-
tinguished galaxy of students Vijayendra, Vadiraja, Lakshmi-
kanta and others, who, by their works and students, kept
bright the firmament of Indian philosophical thought for a
long time after he himself disappeared. Till the middle of
the seventeenth century and so long as the last kings of the
Vijayanagar line and their feudatories of Tanjore and Madura
ruled and the old order of things still continued, support
and criticism of Vyasaraya's works continued to be the
occupation of the learned in philosophy. Madhusudana
Sarasvati, Appayya Dikshita, Vijayendra Swami, Tarangini