Narayana Panditacharya

Narayana Panditacharya
Personal life
Born
Narayana Panditacharya

1290
Present day Coastal Karnataka
Died1370
Present day Kerala
Parent
Religious life
ReligionHinduism
PhilosophyDvaita Vedanta
Religious career

Sri Narayana Panditacharya (also referred as Narayana Pandita) (IAST: Nārāyaṇa Paṇḍitacārya) (c. 1290 – c. 1370[2]), is an Indian scholar and philosopher in the Dvaita Vedānta tradition. He was the youngest son of Trivikrama Panditacharya, one of the direct disciples of Sri Madhva[3] He is the author of Sri Madhva Vijaya, a metrical biography of the rejuvenator of the Dvaita school of philosophy, Sri Madhvacharya. Indologist B. N. K. Sharma writes, "Narayana has earned a lasting fame for himself by his great metrical biography of Madhva".[4]

  1. ^ Siraj 2012, p. 735.
  2. ^ S. Anees Siraj (2012). Karnataka State: Udupi District. Government of Karnataka, Karnataka Gazetteer Department. p. 735. Narayana Pandita (1290- 1370): He was the third son of Trivikrama Panditacharya. He has composed a historical epic named Sumadhwa Vijaya based on Madhwacharya's biography.
  3. ^ Bryant 2007, p. 361.
  4. ^ Sharma 2000, p. 216.

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