Narayana Panditacharya

Narayana Panditacharya
Personal
Born
Narayana Panditacharya

1290
Present day Coastal Karnataka
Died1370
Present day Kerala
ReligionHinduism
Parent
Organization
PhilosophyDvaita Vedanta
Religious career
Literary worksSumadhva Vijaya[1] and Shiva Stuti

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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