SHREE CHANDRALAMBA SANNATI Sri Bhaskara Raya's Contribution

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Shree chandralamba Sannati

-Shree Bhaskara rayas contribution

By Anilkumar Nagarkatti

Shree Subhaganandanath shreegurubhyo namah.

Shree chakraanandanath Paramagurubhyo namah.

Shree Dheeraanandanath Parameshthigurubhyo namah.

Shree Bhaasuraanandanath Paraatparagurubhyo namah.


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I also bow to kuladevata of sri Bhasuranandanatha i.e.Bhaskara raya-Panduranga.

He constructed this temple at Moolahruda in memory ofhis son whose name was also Panduranga. This is

now known as Moolamalla, a village in Atmakur taluk of Mahaboobnagar district, A.P(11kms from

Atmakur by bus). This on the bank of river Krishna (in Bhaskaravilasam this place is written as

Moolahruda). This Vitthala temple being kuladevatha of Sri Bhaskararaya, is built by him as evident from

the shloka written on the frame of the door of the temple. The shloka reads like this-

Bhaavatya paaratya gambeeraraj a deekshi ta soori jah //

Bhaskarah sthaapayaamaasa vi tthalam kuladaivatam //

The different views of the temple are as follows-


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Here is sthala vishesha-

. Soorya Upasana at Moolimadu:- The queen of Chandra sena Maharaja enquired one Sri Narayana

Maharaj, a great sadhak and disciple of Sri Bhaskararaya as to whether she may get male child or female as

she was pregnant at that time. Sri Narayana Maharaj predicted a female child. On a later day Sri

Bhaskararaya also came there and the queen asked Raya the same question since she was not happy with

the prediction of a female child. Sri Bhaskararaya predicted that she may get a male child. The queen

immediately pointed out the controversial predictions. Sri Bhaskararaya got annoyed and said the

prediction given by Narayana Maharaj cannot go wrong since he was a siddha purusha and his own disciple

as well nor his(Rayas) prediction. Thereby she got a very unhealthy weak child without any

physical/mental progress. Again after some years Sri Bhaskararaya once again visited the place and

Chandra Sena Maharaja requested him to cure his child since he was the only son. Therefore he meditated

upon Soorya Bhagavan near the bank of the river Krishna to cure the child. During the stay there Sri

Bhaskararaya had to come to the bank of the river for dail Arghya Pradana and his disciples pointed out this

difficulty and enquired for the remedy. Sri Bhaskararaya told for fun why dont we ask river Krishna to

turn towards their place to perform Arghya Pradana without making such avoidable travel. The disciples

surprised to hear and said his guru is capable of doing anything. And this act was also possible for him.

And Sri Bhaskararaya did it by praying Krishna. Therefore the place is called Moolimadu which means

turning point of water flow in Kannada. The place is now called Moolamalla with similar meaning inTelugu as this place is now in Andhra Pradesh. In Bhaskaravilasam, the place is called Moolahruda.

Extract of Bhaskaravilasam by Umanandanatha stating that sri Raya constructed the temple is here-

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Shree chandralamba Sannati

Now let us come to the subject matter about Shree chandralamba Sannati-

She is kuladevi of sri Bhaskara raya. Let us bow to her also.Her paadukas Temple in srichakraakaara Front view


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This is a village in Gulbarga district of northern Karnataka near Nalwar railway station on Bombay-madras

line between Raichur and Gulbarga stations. Here Sri Chandralaparameshwari devasthanam in Sri

Chakrakara is seen which is constructed by Sri Bhaskararaya.

Extract of Bhaskaravilasam by Umanandanatha stating that sri Raya constructed the temple is here-

In addition sri Raya also got written a commentary on Chandralamba mahatmyam.This also can beconfirmed from Bhaskaravilasam-

Sri Raya perhaps chose this subject because she is his kuladevi.In addition it covers upasana krama of sri

chandralamba.It has her sahasranama, ashtottara,padapanchadika stava,pancha brahmaadi

stava,kavacha,ashtatrimshatkala stotra, sannati kshetra varnana,aanghri stava,abheeshtha siddhi stotra,

Mrutyhara stotra,shankara stotra etc.

Sthala purana

Samudra raja showed his ahamkaara(saying his contribution only made Srirama to get back Seeta

from Ravana)when Sri Ramadoota came to him to invite for Sri Rama pattabhishekaafter killing

Raavana.So dootareturned without giving invitation.Since he did not receive the honour from Sri Rama

(where all those helped him in Ravana vadha and getting bach Seeta got honour he did not get the same

even though he helped to construct Ramasetu) he cursed that in nextjanmahe will do Seetaapaharana.For

this Seeta reacted and gaveshaapa -only five bhramarasare enough to finish him .Let him get raakshasa

janma.Accordingly Seeta born as Chadrala,Samudraraja as Seturaja (raakshasa) and Sriraama as

Narayanamuni.Chadrala&Narayanamuni lived in aparnakuteeraon the bank of river bheemanearSannati.Seturaja on his way to forest found Chandrala and forced for marriage.She tactfully told that she ison wratam for a mandala(three months) and if she is not disturbed till her wratam she may accept

marriage.Accordingly she was kept in Someshwara temple .On return from NadisnaanamNarayanamuni

did not find her and hence went to Kashmir to pray devi hingulamba.She told muni that she will be

following him and while travelling he should not see back.Muni agreed and proceeded just listening the

sound of her noopura.But he could not hear the sound while crossing bheema-kaaginasangamadue to

water flowing with more sound which made Muni see back.Devi settled there only at Honagunti .However

she gavepaadukaasand one coconut and directed to go to Sannati to get back his wife. He made paadukaa

pratishthapanain Sannati and opened the coconut.Surprisingly five bhramarascameout from coconut

,Multipled to thousands, attacked Seturaja and hissainya.Seturaja went to hispaataalalokaand gotshaapavimochanafrom Seeta.All the bhramarasagain came back to five and three of which enter into right

paada and two in leftpaduka of Devi.

Bhaskararaya at SannatiDuring my visit to Sannati I met one the devotees- Sri Kishan rao Dornahalli who narrated the following

about sri Raya at Sannati.After completing at Gurukula at Lokapalli with his vidyaguru Sri Narasimha dori

he had come here for darshanam.There Devi gavesthanapaana which made him so intelligent and all


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knowledgeful.During those time there was topmost University in Sannati.Sri Raya came here seeking a

teacher post.He was told that even though he has sufficient knowledge on all matters including srividya he

needs to bePoornaabhishiktaby aguru.This made him to search guru at Surat.

Bhaskara raya jeevanacharitra

01.Introduction

Adi Shankaracharya once desired to write commentary on Sri Lalitha Sahasranama and told one of his

disciples to bring the book (Lalitha Sahasranama) for reference from library. The disciple could not find the

book at all but at the same time a small girl came forward and gave Sri Vishnu Sahasranama to him to

handover to Shankaracharya. The disciple was once again sent to search the book and samething repeated

twice. Finally, Sri Shabkaracharya realized through his Divya drishti that the girl was none other than Sri

Devi and convinced that the job of writing commentary on Vishnu Sahasranama is reserved for him only

which was very much required during those days. It is also presumed that this commentary was necessary

to show that he is also a worshipper of Vishnu in addition to Shiva and Sri Devi. It was also made known

through divya drishti to Shankaracharya that the Bhashya on Sri Lalitha Sahasranama to one more

mahapurusha in future who is the hero of this book- Sri Bhaskararaya.

The life history of Sri Raya has been recorded in very few literatures of his disciples. Sri Umanandanatha

(Sri Jagannatha Pandita) of Tanjore, has explained in his kavya named Bhaskaravilasa about the life andliterary of Sri Raya. He is the author of Nithyotsava also. The another source is from Sri Guru Parampara

written by Pandit Ramakrishna Somayaji. This book has been translated into Marathi by MahajanSahitya

Prakashan, Nandede during 1978-79. Now the same book is being translated into hindi by Dr.Prabhakar

Sadashiv Pandit- son-in-law of sri Batukanathshastry Khistey of Varanasi. Sri Batukanathshastry has done

lot of work to publish the books of Sri Raya including a recent work in 1993 under the name Bhaskararaya

Bharati Dikshita vyaktitva Evam Krititva, published by Sampurnanada samskrita vidyalay, Varanasi. His

article on Sri Rayasjeevana charitre can also be seen in kalyan magazine of feb 1987, a special

supplementary edition on shakti upasana. His father Sri Narayanashastry also contributed in writing

introduction to Nirnaya sagars Lalitha Sahasranama with Saubhagyabhaskara Bhashya giving details of

Bhaskararayas life. Both of them were initiated diksha by Sri Raghunathshastry Godbole, Mumbai who

has done tremendous work in publicizing Sri Rayas tradition brought through Vasmath shishya parampara

originated from Sri Umapathyanandanatha, direct disciple of Sri Raya. Majority works of Sri Raya have

been preserved in Saraswathi Pustakalaya, Varanasi. Sri Rayas tradition is being still continuing throughUmanandanatha, another direct disciple of Sri Raya with sadhakas like R. Krishnaswamy shastry-Tanjore

whose maternal grandfathers grandfather was one of the direct disciples of Umanandanatha.

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02.Bhaskararayas Poornabhishekham

Sri Narasimha Dori who taught 18 vidyas, also made him to enter into Sri Vidya. However, Sri raya

assumed diksha from Sri Shivadatta Shukla of Surat with dikshanama Bhasuranandanatha. While on tour in

Paithan town, several pandits had suggested Sri shuklas name for further study on Sri Vidya, who was a

great upasaka of Sri Shankaracharyas Upasana marga. Therefore he decided to go to Surat for Diksha. He

chose to meet Sri Shukla as a simple Brahman. He took the job of cleaning vessels and other utensils for

pooja, cleaning the house etc. At that time, so called vidwans of vallabha sampradaya came there and

challenged the Advaita marg. The followers of Advaita marg met Sri shukla who was very old to move out

of his house. There was no alternative in the minds of those followers to meet the challenge with vallabha

sampradayins. Sri Raya understood the situation and requested Sri Shukla to permit him to lead the groupfor discussions. Sri Shukla rightly judged the capacity of the boy and permitted him. As already anticipated

by Sri Shuklaji,Sri raya won in the challenge and brought the Vijay Pataka at the feet of Sri Shuklaji. He

was very happy to see him and immediately decided to give Poornabhishekha to Sri Raya. Sri Shivadatta

Shuklas dikshanama is Sri Prakashanandanatha. Sri Rayas wife also got dikshanama as Padmavathyamba.

Both of them presented a very valuable vasthralankara, dakshina etc to their guru Sri Shukla, gurupatni and

their daughter and worshipped. In this way Sri Raya got Poornadiksha and left to bijapur to stay with his

father.

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03.Sri Bhaskararayas Janma and Vidyabhyasa

Just as Sri Umanandanatha (Sri Jagannatha shukla), the direct disciple of Sri Bhaskararaya has rightly

wrote in his beginning verses of Bhaskaravilasam- a kavya describing the whole life history of his guru(Sri

Bhaskararaya) as in above shloka. I also with mandathama pragna, not at all capable of explaining the

greatness of my Paratpara Guru. But only with the grace of my Sri Guru Subhaganandanatha, I hereby try

to present the life history of my Paratpara Guru to my level best as follows:-

Sri Bhaskararayas vamshavali:- The moolapurusha of Sri Bhaskararayas vamsha is Vishwamitra

gothreeya Sri Ekanathahis son Sri Yamaji Pandita (Panditas wife smt Chandralamba). Sri Gambhiraraya

(son of sri yamaji pandita) and his wife Smt Konambika are sthe parents of Sri Bhaskararaya.

Parents of Sri Bhaskararaya:- Even though Sri Gambhiraraya was follower of Bhagavatha sampradaya, his

wife (Sri Bhaskararayas mother) got initiation on Agamashastra through Sri Narayana Pandita which has

contributed for uplift in Agamashastra to Sri Bhaskararaya.

Sri Gambhiraraya was a minister in Bijapur Adilshahi Darbar, now in north

Karnataka. As desired his king, he translated the whole Mahabharatha into PHARSI. The king honored him

with the title BHARATHI which is mentioned in Bhaskaravilasam also(5th sloka below).

The first son (Sri Narayana) of Sri Gambhiraraya was not so intelligent as

compared to his fathers knowledge. Therefore, Smt Konambika prayed to Soorya Bhagavan to get another

intelligent son as great as her husband. Accordingly she got a very intelligent personality as a son during

1675(Christian era) in Krittika nakshatra 4th pada in vyshakha masa, shukla paksha thritiya when soorya,

Chandra, budha, guru and shukra were in their exaltation point.at bhagyanagara, now in Hyderabad, AP. Sri

Gambhiraraya initiated Sri Bhaskararaya into worship of Saraswathi when he was a mere boy. Sri

Bhaskaraya, a boy of seven years age was able to chant the Sabeshwara stotra in Kashi which made thepandits excited and forced to perform Upanayana. Sri Narasimha Dori, a great teacher and sadhaka of

Lokapalli(Narayanpet) samsthana had an occasion to visit Sri Rayas house on the way to Shringere. Sri

Dori was exited the intelligence of the boy and asked his parents to send him for adhyana in his gurukula at

Lokapalli. The parents with due respect sent their son for study where he was taught 18 vidyas. After

mastering those vidyas, Sri Raya learnt gowdataraka under Sri Gangadhara vajapeyin who setteled in

Thiruvalankadu on the southern bank of kaveri(therefore Sri Raya also chose Bhaskararayapuram for his

stay which is on the northern bank of kaveri). Sri Raya was taught chandas and alankarashastra by Sri

Rukmanapandit. He completed all the above education at his age of 16 years. He got married with Anandi

at the age of 18. His father was very much interested to bring him into ministership in Adilshahis

kingdom. But Sri Raya was not at all prepared to enter and was busy in studying shastras, do yatras,

granthalekhana, doing religious functions, etc. finally on the advice of his vidya guru Sri Narasimha Dori,

went ti Surat to get Poornabhishekha on Upasana maarga.

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04.Digvijaya yatra

After getting Poorna diksha from Sri Shivadatta Shukla, Sri returned to Bijapur. After staying for some

time there, he left for Dharmik deeds and yatra along with his learned disciples. It is note worthy that

during yatra also there were discussions on shastras and writing of books simultaneously. He, being

Agnihotri during journey also Isti and Yag were performed. To protect Indian samskara he struggled day

and night and thought of ways and means for that purpose. He has initiated all the eligible disciples into


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upasana marg. He has publicized the siddhantas of Adi Shankaracharya and had discussions with several

opposite parties and won every where.

During his journey in southern part of India Acharya sathyashram of Madhwa peeth had

challenged on Sri Bhaskararayas math. Sri Bhaskararaya had successfully won the challenge and got

married with his (Acharya sathyashram) brothers daughter. Sri Bhaskararaya once again returned Bijapur

and lived with his father sometime. Again he started the journey, performed yagnas, constructed temples,

arranged discourse of great vidwans, traveled on the banks of Krishna and Kaveri, presented lands to

Brahmins for their daily life. During this yatra, king of tanjore presented a village which is named as

Bhaskara raya puram and Rayas wife installed Bhaskareswara and Devi there. Meanwhile Sri Raua

received a message that his mother expired. Therefore he returned to his native and completed all the

rituals. After some time his father also expired.

Thereafter Sri Bhaskararaya visited Rameshwaram, Mathura-Meenakshi,

Ananthashayana and reached Shringeri. There he met Sharada peeth swamiji Sri Purushottham bharathi and

discussed his plans which were duly approved by swamiji. He got presented Chatra, Chamara, Rajachinha

etc. But Sri Bhaskararaya accepted only essential things. He toured south Karnataka, Gokarna and

Mahabaleshwar and reached Kolhapur where he performed Pooja to Mahalakshmi.

He received honors gifts etc from the kings during the above tour. He visited triambakeswar, Sapthashrungi

and other temples in his yatra and arrived to surat where he honored his guru (Sri Shivadutta shukla),

gurupatni and gurukanya with vastras and dakshina. He performed pooja at Somanath temple and then left

for Kashmir. He interacted with kashmiri vidwans. He visited Omkareshwar temple, Haridwar, Pancha

prayag, Gangothri etc.he continued his journey for pashupathi darshan in Nepal where the king with alllearned Pandits welcomed him. On return, he visited Ayodhya, Mathura, Kashi, Gaya etc and finally

reached Gautam Ashram and then Kamakhya peeth where black magic was being performed and therefore

were afraid of the place. But Sri Bhaskararaya was welcomed by those people also and he performed pooja

at kamakhya temple. Then he visited Nagpur, Marathwada Jyothirling, Nagnath, Parli- vaidyanath and

lastly Thulaja bhavani at Thulajapur. As his ancestors were devotees of pandarpur vitthala, he went there,

performed pooja and wrote Pandurangashtaka. He also went to sannathi kshetra in Karnataka where he

constructed Sri Chandralaparameshwari temple in Sri Chakrakara, being his kuladevatha. He also arranged

through the administrator of the place for daily pooja and Agrahara for the Brahmins. He also wrote

chandralashtaka here.

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05.Sri Bhaskararaya Jeevanacharithre vishesha ghatanavali

1. Chathushshasti Koti Yogini:- As per introduction given by Sri panashikar vasudev Sharma toNirnaya sagars Sri Lalitha sahasranama bhashya, there is an interesting incidence in Kashi while writing

Saubhagyabhaskara as follows. The learned people of kashi had decided to condemn the tradition followed

Sri Bhaskararaya and met him under the leadership of Sri Narayana Bhatta. Sri Bhaskararaya welcomed

and arranged for the argument. Sri Bhaskararaya replied to all the queries raised by them. Finally they felt

that they can defeat him only with the questions on mantra shastra which Sri Bhaskararaya replied since he

had learnt the shastra very well. As the team had come with the intention to defeat him, they asked to

furnish a list of 64 crores of Yoginis names and their details which Sri Bhaskararaya accepted the

challenge and requested to assemble on the bank of Ganga river at chaoushashti ghat in the evening. Sri

Bhaskararaya sat on dhyana mudra and asked the learned people to note down the names and details. It was

found that all the two hundred people were writing different names and their details. One Sri Kumkumadi

Saraswathi a learned sanyasi saw this and finally found that Sri Devi herself was speaking through Sri

Bhaskararaya and therefore asked Narayan Bhatta to stop it and accept. Sri Narayana Bhatta who has not

readily accepted and wanted full proof , therefore the sanyasin took some water from the basin where SriDevi had been bathed by Sri Bhaskararaya and anointed the eyes of Narayana Bhatta with it. His eyes were

at once regaled with the wonderful vision of Sri Devi sitting on the shoulders of Sri Bhaskararaya and

speaking through his mouth. Sri Bhatta realized rightly realized and joined the tradition of Raya. The

choushashti ghat is still available at Kashi.

2. Vepattur sanyasin:- Sri Bhaskararaya spent his old age at Madhyarjuna kshetra which is now

known as Thirvadai maradur near Kumbhakonam in his house BhaskaraNilaya on Mahadana street. During

evening hours Sri Bhaskararaya used to sit in varanda in front of his house with easing his leg to the pole

in front of it and teach his shishyas. At that time a sanyasin Vepattur used to pass through Rayas house to

visit Mahalingeshwar temple. Sri Bhaskararaya could not see nor bow to sanyasi as respect. The sanyasi


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raised the objection at the time of pradosha pooja in Mahalingeshwara temple for which Sri Bhaskararaya

replied suitably and asked him to keep his handstick away from him and bowed to it. The stick broke away

into pieces. As Sri Bhaskararaya aquired sodhanyasa need not to bow to any body. However to maintain the

dignity of sanyasavarga Sri Bhaskararaya avoided such scenes by going inside his house.

3. An incidence with Chandra Sen Jadhav:- He was a senapathi in maharashtra kingdom. Due to

some political reasons with Maratha maharaja he had to leave the kingdom along with some powerful

sardars and Nizam kingdom who gave a place called Bhalki. During those days Sri Chandra Sen had

contact with a muslim faquir who subsequently made chandrasen as insane since he had not accepted to get

converted to muslim religion. Fortunately Sri Bhaskararaya had come to Bhalki on yathra and heard the

incidence through wife of sri chandrasena. Sri Bhaskararaya prayed arranged for of Bhagavathi

Dandanayika through Brahmins which cured Sri chandrasena. which resulted the run away of faquir and all

his evil effects.4. Soorya Upasana at Moolimadu:- The queen of Chandra sena Maharaja enquired one Sri Narayana

Maharaj, a great sadhak and disciple of Sri Bhaskararaya as to whether she may get male child or female as

she was pregnant at that time. Sri Narayana Maharaj predicted a female child. On a later day Sri

Bhaskararaya also came there and the queen asked Raya the same question since she was not happy with

the prediction of a female child. Sri Bhaskararaya predicted that she may get a male child. The queen

immediately pointed out the controversial predictions. Sri Bhaskararaya got annoyed and said the

prediction given by Narayana Maharaj cannot go wrong since he was a siddha purusha and his own disciple

as well nor his(Rayas) prediction. Thereby she got a very unhealthy weak child without any

physical/mental progress. Again after some years Sri Bhaskararaya once again visited the place and

Chandra Sena Maharaja requested him to cure his child since he was the only son. Therefore he meditated

upon Soorya Bhagavan near the bank of the river Krishna to cure the child. During the stay there Sri

Bhaskararaya had to come to the bank of the river for dail Arghya Pradana and his disciples pointed out this

difficulty and enquired for the remedy. Sri Bhaskararaya told for fun why dont we ask river Krishna toturn towards their place to perform Arghya Pradana without making such avoidable travel. The disciples

surprised to hear and said his guru is capable of doing anything. And this act was also possible for him.

And Sri Bhaskararaya did it by praying Krishna. Therefore the place is called Moolimadu which means

turning point of water flow in Kannada. The place is now called Moolamalla with similar meaning in

Telugu as this place is now in Andhra Pradesh. In Bhaskaravilasam, the place is called Moolahruda.

----------------------Not the end of vishesha ghatanavali-since there may be many many other instances

which are not known to us but known to many others who may add to this list to update------------------

06..Vishesha sthala namavali

1. Bijapur :- It is district place in northern region of Karnataka where Sri Bhaskararayas parents

lived. The place has historical importance with Adil Shahi monuments of world famous structures.

2. Kashipattanam (Varanasi):- The place where Sri Bhaskararaya wrote Saubhagyabhaskara andwondered about Chatusshashti koti Yogini darshanas at Chousatti Ghat.also he wrote Khadyota-comentary

on Ganesha sahasranaama at Trilochana Ghat


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3. Lokapalli:- A village near Narayanpet (about 3 kms away). Here Sri Bhaskaraya learnt 18 vidyas

from his Guru Sri Narsimhadori.

4. Narayanpet:- It is in Mahboobnagar district of A.P, 40kms from its railway station, Narayanpet

road on Bombay-Madras line between Raichur and Gulbarga stations. Here Sri Bhaskararayas daughter

was living in Dev family after her marriage. Dev family at 8th descendent from her is still living here and

some shifted to Hydrabad on employment. Here samadhi of Sri Vitthala Dev (Sri Dheeranandanatha ) is

available. In this samadhi, during 1971, padukas of Sri Bhaskararaya have been made sthapana. My Sriguru

and father Sri Subhaganandanatha lived here.Surat:- It is in Gujarath where Sri Prakashanandanatha

(Shivadatta shukla) who has initiated Sri Bhaskararaya Poornabhishiktha with dikshanama Sri

Bhasuranandanatha.

5. Bhaskararayapuram:- It an Agrahara (a place where a group of Brahmins lived) gifted by king of

Tanjore to Sri Bhaskararaya. Srirayas wife Padmavathi constructed Parvathi temple named as Anandavalli.

Shiva Linga in the name of Bhaskareshwara is also made sthapana. Kumbabhishekam was held in 1979

under the guidance of Kanchi Shankaracharya. This village is between Kumbhakonam and mailadutturai. A

private bus by name Green runs on this line.

6. Thiruvadai maradur:- In olden days, this town was called as Madhuarjuna. Here a very big temple

with very big Shiva Linga of 2000 years old is seen. A road connecting to this temple is called Mahadana

rasta. Just half kilometer away from this temple on the above Mahadana road, a residence called Bhaskara

Nilayam is seen where SriRaya spent his oldage. In the above temple a big statue of Sri Bhaskararaya, a big

Sri Chakra (golden) are also seen.


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7 Bhalki:- This is a taluka place of Bidar district of north Karnataka. Sri Umapathyanandanatha ,

the direct disciple of Sri Bhaskararaya is from this place. This place was visited by Sri Bhaskararaya

frequently. Samaadhi of Sri Umaapatyaanandanatha is seen here.

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9. Vasmath:- A town near Bhalki of Bidar district where the tradition of Sri Umapathyanandanatha is

still continued and a mutt called Sri Shukananda mutt is now seen. The present adhikari Sri Chintamani

siddha Maharaj is continuing the tradition.

-------------------------------End of Vishesha sthala namavali--------------------------------

7.Bhaskararayas Grantha Rachananaavali

Umanandanathathe direct disciple of Bhaskararaya, having vyavahara nama as JagannathaPanditha of

Vishwamithra Gothra has written Bhaskaravilasa Kavyam which gives the detailed life history of his Guru.

Shlokas from 42 to 69 of the above kavya give the details of books authored by his Guru Sri Bhaskararaya.

His exhaustive works on Srividya which are famous as Prasthana thraya are Varivasya Rahasya,

Saubhagya Bhaskara*(commentary on Lalithasahasranama) and Sethubandha.(*There is an interesting

instance at Chousatti Ghat while writing this book in Varanasi which is explained in some other chapter)

His creations on Vedantha are Chandabhaskara, Neelakalakapetika. On

Mimamsa or Vadakauthuhala, Bhatta chandradaya. Rasikaranjani which a commentary on Madhya

siddhanta kaumudi on vyakarana shasthra. He has written chandobhaskara, chandahkausthubha on gadya at

his early age of 11 years only. The other books on gadya at his credit are Vrittachandrodaya, Vaarthikaraja

and Mruthasanjivini. His kavya creations are chandrashala , madhuramala and bhaskara subhashitha. On

smrithi he has written smrithithatva, sahasra bhojana kandathika, shankhachakrankana prayaschitta ,

ekaadashi nirnaya, pradosha nirnaya , trichabhaskara and kundabhaskara. The stotras penned by him are


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Sivastava, Devistava, Shivadandaka, Shivastotra shathanamastotra vyaakhya. The most valuable creations

on mantra shastra are listed below:-

1 Khadyothacommentary on Ganapathi sahasranama

2 Chandralamba Mahatmyathika

3 Nathanavaratnamala manjoosha

4 Bhavanopanishath Bhashya

5 Shree suktha Bhashya

6 Kaulopanishath Bhashya

7 Thripuropanishath Bhashya

8 Saubhagya chandrodaya

9 Thripurasundari Baahya Varivasya

10 Ratnalokacommentary on Parashuramakalpasuthra

11 Gupthavathicommentary on Durgasapthashathi

12 Shathashloki

13 Malamanthroddhara

On vedic subject he has written vydikakosha which is a short glossary on vedic words.

The other miscellaneous works (unpublished) are as follows:-

1 Avadhootha geetha vyakhya

2 Ashtavakra geetha vakra vyakhya

3 Atmabodha vyakhya4 Amnayapaddhathi

5 Eshwara Geetha Vyakhya

6 uttara varivasya

7 kaathakopanishath Bhashya

8 Kenopanishath tika

9 Taitiryopanishad tika

10 Jabalopanishad bhashya

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