Biographies
Read biographies of saints and personalities.
Yamunacharya
Biography of Yamunacharya by Shri Madhavakkannan Yamunacharya. Yamunacharya is the grand -Acharya (Pracharya ) of Ramanujacharya (1017 AD to 1137 AD). He established the principles of Visisht Adhvaita as an expansion of the doctrines h...
Vyasadeva
Some Brief Information About Shrila Vyasadeva. Vyasadeva. "When the second millenium ('Dwarpa Yuga') overlapped the third ('Treta Yuga'), the great sage Shrila Vyasadeva was born to Parashara Muni in the womb of Satyati, the daughter o...
Vyasa Tirtha
Otherwise known as Shrila Vyasaraya and Shrila Vyasaraja Swamin, as we briefly mentioned, he was the disciple of Shripad Brahmanya Tirtha. He was the fourth in decent from Rajendra Tirtha. Born around 1460 A.D., in the village of Bannu...
Vishnu Swami
Both Jiva Goswami in his Bhagavata Sandarbha and Krishnadasa Kaviraja in his Chaitanya-Charitamrta look to Shripad Vishnuswami for inspiration to establish the essential difference between God and the individual souls and quote from his Sar...
Vijayadhvaj Tirtha (Jayadharma Tirtha)
Between Shripad Rajendra Tirtha and Shripad Vyasa Tirtha we have Shripad Vijayadhvaja Tirtha, alias Jayadhvaja Tirtha, alias Jayadharma Tirtha. He is listed in the Mutt genealogical tables as being a member of the Pejawara Mutt coming from...
Vidyanidhi Tirtha
Shripad Vidyadhiraja Tirtha was born in 1269 AD (1190 Sakabja Era) (A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad. Shri Chaitanya Charitamrta. Madhya-lila 9:245. purport – Bombay Gazzette.) and some say that he lived to 1412 AD (143 years). BNK Sharma...
Vallabha Bhatta Acharya
He appeared in 1479 in south India and disappeared in 1531. He detached himself from the tradition of Vishnu Swami and started his own school, which is prominent today in Mathura-Vrindavana. In his school there are no sannyasis (renounced m...
Thondaradippodi Alvar
Thondaradippodi Alvar was a Tamil Vaishnava Saint who is also named as "Vipra Narayanar" led his life in devotion to Lord Narayana and worked for the Perumal (Lord) by dedicating him with Garlands. He is one of the 12 Alvars. Birth and...
Thiruppaan Alvar
Thiruppaan Alvar. Thiruppaan Alvar was born in Purthurmadhi year, Kaarthigai month, on a Wednesday in the Rohini Star (Natshatram) in the small village of "Alagapuri" near Shrirangam in the 8th or 9th century C.E. He was born in "Paanar Che...
Thirumulisai Alvar
Thirumulisai Alvar. Thirumalisai Alvar is a tamil mendicant-saint revered in the Shri Vaishnavism school of south India between the 4th to 9th century CE in Tondai Nadu [now called Kanchipuram and Tiruvallur districts]. There are only littl...
Thirumangai Alvar
Thirumangai Alvar. Thirumangai Alvar or Tirumangai Alvar or Tirumankai Alvar or Thirumangai Mannan (8th century AD) is the last of the 12 Alvar saints of south India, who are known for their affiliation to Vaishnava tradition. He is conside...
Shri Koorath Azhvan (Kooresha)
Shri Kuresha was born in a village called Kooram near Kanchi in A.D 1008. His parents, who were extremely rich, named him Shri Vatsangar. Because of his background he was called Kooranaatha or Kooresha. When he heard that Shri Ramanuja...
Ramanujacharya
Ramanujacharya. When the religion of the Vedas became weakened due to the influence of less intelligent men who blindly performed ritualistic ceremonies and wantonly killed animals in the name of Vedic injunctions, Buddha appeared on the sc...
Rajendra Tirtha
As we just stated, Vidyadiraja Tirtha was the immediate disciple of Jaya Tirtha. Being of seniority in his years, as well as learning and devotional understandings, Rajendra Tirtha also became the successor on the Pitha (1388-1412. AD.)....
Poigai Alvar
Poigai Alvar was one of the twelve Alvars and was a Hindu saint. He belonged to the Vaishnava (worshiper of Vishnu) denomination of Hinduism. Poigai Alvar was born in a village near Kanchipuram in the seventh century CE. Poigai (pond i...
Peyalvar
Peyalvar was one of the twelve Alvars and was a Hindu saint. He belonged to the Vaishnavite (worshiper of Vishnu) faith. Peyalvar was born in Tirumayilai (Mylapore, now part of the city of Chennai in the seventh century CE. Vaishnavite...
Periyalvar
One of the alvars, he was born into a Brahmin family in Shrivilliputhur, near Madurai in the 6th or 9th century (conflicting reports) CE and was named Vishnuchittar meaning "one who has Vishnu in his mind". Legend says he rejected the vedic...
Padmanabha Tirtha
Shripad Padmanabha Tirtha was a native of Uttara-Karnataka which in those days stretched to the area known as Andhra Pradesh. The exact time of Padmanabha Tirtha's appearance is not , but in Shri Chaitanya Charitamrta purport (Madhya-lil 9:...
Nimbarkacharya
The main exponent of the Kumara or Chatuhsana sampradaya (this knowledge was transmitted to the four Kumaras by the Hamsa avatara), who lived in the 13th century and propagated the doctrine called dvaita advaita, "simultaneous oneness and d...