Vidyadhiraja Tirtha

Vidyādhiraja Tīrtha
Personal
Born
Krishna Bhatt

1269
ReligionHinduism
Organization
OrderVedanta
PhilosophyDvaita Vedanta,
Vaishnavism
Religious career
GuruJayatirtha
SuccessorKavindra Tirtha (Uttaradi Matha)
Rajendra Tirtha (Vyasaraja Math)[1][2]
Disciples

Vidyadhiraja Tirtha was a Hindu philosopher, dialectician and the seventh pontiff of Madhvacharya Peetha and served as peetadhipathi from (c. 1388 – c. 1392).[3][4]

  1. ^ Konduri Sarojini Devi (1990). Religion in Vijayanagara Empire. Sterling Publishers. p. 133. ISBN 9788120711679. This selection of Kavindra as the successor of Vidyadhiraja, leaving Rajendra Tirtha resulted in the bifurcation of the Madhva Mathas, namely Vyasaraya Matha at Sosale headed by Rajendra Tirtha and Uttaradi Matha presided by Kavindra Tirtha.
  2. ^ Sadhu Subrahmanya Sastry; V. Vijayaraghavacharya. Tirumalai-Tirupati Dēvasthānam Epigraphical Series: pt. 1. Inscriptions of Venkatapatiraya's time. Sri Mahant's Dévasthānam Press. p. 72. Vidyādhirāja Tirtha ( the sixth Pontiff) or sixth successor of Uttarādi Matha) and founder of Vyāsarāya Matha), and appointed Rajendra Tirtha, as first Pontiff of this Vyāsaraya Matha
  3. ^ Sharma 2000, p. 451.
  4. ^ Ṣādiq Naqvī; V. Kishan Rao; A. Satyanarayana (2005). A Thousand Laurels--Dr. Sadiq Naqvi: Studies on Medieval India with Special Reference to Deccan, Volume 2. Osmania University. p. 777. Sri Vidyadhiraja Tirtha, the disciple and a worthy successor of Jaya Tirtha who occupied the throne of Vedanta Samrajya of the Uttaradi Mutt.

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