Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 357 views

    Sri Sankarshana Wodeyaru

    Uploaded by

    naraharisumadhwa
    Sri Sankarshana Wodeyaru was born as Thammanna Nayak in 1810. He studied religious texts under Sri Beemavarahachar as a child and mastered 37 granthas under Sri Vishwapriya Theertharu in Udupi. He took sanyasa from Sri Satyaparayana Theertharu and was named Sri Sankarshana Wodeyaru. He lived in Karapoondi, taught disciples, and wrote a commentary on Harikathamruthasara. In 1862, he entered brundavana in Karapoondi where his worship continues. He was considered a great expert in

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Sri Sankarshana Wodeyaru

    Uploaded by

    naraharisumadhwa
    357 views4 pages
    Sri Sankarshana Wodeyaru was born as Thammanna Nayak in 1810. He studied religious texts under Sri Beemavarahachar as a child and mastered 37 granthas under Sri Vishwapriya Theertharu in Udupi. He took sanyasa from Sri Satyaparayana Theertharu and was named Sri Sankarshana Wodeyaru. He lived in Karapoondi, taught disciples, and wrote a commentary on Harikathamruthasara. In 1862, he entered brundavana in Karapoondi where his worship continues. He was considered a great expert in

    Original Description:

    Sri Sankarshana Wodeyaru, who wrote the commentary on Sri Harikathamruthasara.

    Copyright

    © Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Sri Sankarshana Wodeyaru was born as Thammanna Nayak in 1810. He studied religious texts under Sri Beemavarahachar as a child and mastered 37 granthas under Sri Vishwapriya Theertharu in Udupi. He took sanyasa from Sri Satyaparayana Theertharu and was named Sri Sankarshana Wodeyaru. He lived in Karapoondi, taught disciples, and wrote a commentary on Harikathamruthasara. In 1862, he entered brundavana in Karapoondi where his worship continues. He was considered a great expert in

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    357 views4 pages

    Sri Sankarshana Wodeyaru

    Uploaded by

    naraharisumadhwa
    Sri Sankarshana Wodeyaru was born as Thammanna Nayak in 1810. He studied religious texts under Sri Beemavarahachar as a child and mastered 37 granthas under Sri Vishwapriya Theertharu in Udupi. He took sanyasa from Sri Satyaparayana Theertharu and was named Sri Sankarshana Wodeyaru. He lived in Karapoondi, taught disciples, and wrote a commentary on Harikathamruthasara. In 1862, he entered brundavana in Karapoondi where his worship continues. He was considered a great expert in

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 4

    Sri Sankarshana Wodeyaru

    He wrote Commentary on Harikathamruthasara of Sri Jagannathadasaru

    Poorvashrama nama – Thammanna Nayak

    Ashrama Gurugalu – Sri Satyaparayana Tirtharu

    River Cheyyar, also known as Baahuda nadhi has a lot of great temples on its
    banks. On the banks of this river lies a beautiful small village named
    Karapoondi. Three kilometers to the east of Polur on the Vandavasi – Polur
    road lies this village surrounded by bountiful green fields well nourished by
    the river Cheyyar. In the middle of the village, in the brahmin street, at the
    northern end is a house with tiled roof, it can be described as a choultry rather
    than a house. This place was sanctified by the presence of Sri Sankarshanaru
    who lived here. A great sanyasi, who had food just to sustain life and was a
    kalpavriksha in the true sense.

    Poorvashrama and childhood :

    Sri Sankarshanaru in his poorvashrama was known as Thammanna Nayak. His


    ancestors hailed from Kurla Hosur, a village on the banks of river Malaprabha.
    Nayak family was engaged in the trade of silver, gold, diamond and pearl and
    shifted to Dharwar to pursue their business. His father’s name was
    Dhumappa Nayak who had two wives.

    Thammanna Nayak was born in the year 1810 as the second child to Sri
    Dhumappa Nayak’s second wife. It is also said that he was born with the
    blessings of Sri Satyadharma Theertharu of Holehonnuru. When Thammanna
    attained the right age, his parents performed his upanayana. Thammanna
    learnt all the granthas from Sri Beemavarahachar who was also living in their
    house. Thammanna was keenly observing panchebeda gnana, taratamya and
    also observing without fail ekadashi and harivasara. Observing Thammanna’s
    disciplined life in that young age, Sri Beemavarahachar used to call him as
    ‘Rishi’. Thammanna got married at the right age and had two children. His
    wife died when he was twenty two years old and he was not interested in
    marrying for the second time.

    Udupi Yatra :

    Thammanna reached Udupi and mastered the 37 granthas of Sri


    Madhwacharya under the guidance of Sri Vishwapriya Theertharu of Sodhe
    Matha. Meanwhile, Sri Satya Santhushta Thirtharu and Sri Satya Sankalpa
    Thirtharu were doing Sri Rama Vedavyasa puje at the same place for years.
    Due to this the matha landed in debt and they pledged the priceless navaratha
    mantapa and golden gangala (gifted by Srimathi Raji Bai of Arani Jagir
    Samasthana) with Ramanna Nayak, brother of Thammanna. Ramanna gave
    enough money to the matha without hesitation.

    After some years, Sri Satya Parayana Thirtharu took over the reins of the
    matha after Sri Satya Santhusta Thirtharu. Srigalu during his sanchara camped
    at Ramanna Nayak’s house and performed Sri Rama Vedavyasara puje for two
    months. One day, he opened up with Ramanna and said, ‘Ramanna, my puje
    seems to be incomplete, my mind wanders away in seeing Rama without the
    rathna mantapa. I will do sanchara and will repay from the contributions I
    receive thus towards the pledged items. You may send your representative
    along with me to whom the money will be deposited. Ramanna agreed to this
    and Thammanna joined the entourage of Srigalu with the main intention of
    doing teertha yatra and also to collect the dues.

    During the sanchara, Thammanna again started studying under Sri Satya
    Parayana Thirtharu. After mastering the shastras and granthas, Thammanna
    did ‘mangala’ and bore the expenses of day’s puje. Srigalu asked Thammanna
    to consider the navrathana mantapa and gangala pledged with his brother as
    guru dakshina. A Rudramsha and a vairagyaseelaru, a great saint to be,
    Thammanna without hesitation and with detached mind gave up the items as
    guru dakshina to Rama Vedavyasaru. Srigalu ordained Thammanna to send
    message to his brother. As per his guidance, Thammanna drafted two letters
    to his brother Ramanna, one letter certifying that all dues have been received
    from the matha and the second one requesting that the navarathna mantapa
    and the golden gangala be delivered to the matha’s messenger. Ramanna who
    received the letters, delivered the pledged items of the matha to the
    messenger. The matha’s debt was cleared and the pledged items were
    restored, seeing his Rama in his gloriest past and having found a great sishya
    in Thammanna, Sri Satyaparayana Theertharu was very happy and continued
    his sanchara to propagate madhwa philosophy.

    Ramannna spent good time in waiting for the money collected from the matha
    which was not forthcoming. There was no response for his letter from
    Thammanna. So Ramanna went in search of Thammanna and learnt what had
    happened. He returned home with Thammanna heavy in heart for the loss.
    Thammanna relieved his brother of his disturbed mind by declaring that the
    amount of loss may be recovered from his share of the family wealth and
    whatever remains thereafter may be enjoyed by his Ramanna.

    Thammanna becomes Sankarshana Wodeyaru :

    Thammanna was a great gnani and a saint in the true sense, who had the
    gnana that Sri Hari is the Sarvothama and everything moves as per His wish –
    laid all his karma phala at Sri Hari’s lotus feet. Thammanna at the age of 32
    years left for Udupi to get guru upadesha and sanyasa ashrama from Sri Satya
    Parayana Theertharu. Srigalu tried to convince him that he should remain a
    grahastha. Ramanna also pleaded with his brother to reconsider his decision –
    all efforts failed and Thammanna was determined to have sanyasa ashrama.
    Finally, Srigalu gave him sanyasa ashrama and named him as Sri Sankarshana
    Wodeyaru and gave him a silver Sri Venugopala Vigraha for his daily puje. Sri
    Sankarshanaru stayed in his house for some time and shifted to Sri Vittala
    Swamy temple in the agrahara and lived on bikshe offered to him.

    He went on yatre to Tirupati and the Sri Venkatesha appeared in his swapna
    and directed him to go to Sholingur (Gatikachalam) for the darshan of Sri Yoga
    Narasimha and Sri Yoga Anjaneya. After his Sholingur yatre, Sri
    Sankarshanaru proceeded to Vellore and stayed there for nine years – he re-
    organised the matha activities and restored the puje and seva to Sri
    Satyajiraya Theertharu.

    He imparted his vast knowledge to his sishyas. He was a great example of a


    sanyasi who had preached the tenets of madhwa philosophy to each and
    everyone who approached him. He wrote a great commentary on
    Harikathamruthasara. Sri Sankarshanaru continued his teertha yatre to
    various places along with his sishyas. While on sanchara, as per the desire of
    his disciple, Sri Sankarshanaru decided to stay in Karapoondi near Polur. The
    village is so sanctified by the shadow of Sampathgiri hill nearby, the right
    place Sri Wodeyaru had chosen has his resting place. A matha was constructed
    for his stay and Sri Wodeyaru continued his puje punashkaras and shastra
    patha there.

    Brundavana Pravesha :

    In 1862, Margasirsha maasa, suddha panchami, dundhubi varsha, Sri


    Sankarshanaru entered brundavana at Karapoondi. Since then regular puje
    and aradhana continues without fail. An eyewitness account of the
    brundavana pravesha of Sri Wodeyaru gives us a clear picture of the event. Sri
    Sankarshanaru instructed his disciple Sanjeevi Rao to make necessary
    arrangements for the brundavana pravesha suitable for a yathi. Sanjeevi Rao
    along with others prepared the placed, cleaned and made all arrangements.
    After some months Sri Sankarshanaru appeared in the swapna of Sanjeevi Rao
    and said that his instructions have not been carried out properly. While
    examining the site the next day, Sanjeevi Rao and other devotees were
    surprised to see that Sri Wodeyaru as ‘jadadhari’ and all the gopichandana
    mudras were as fresh as on the day of internment. Eight months after this
    incident, a brundavana was raised at the site.

    The above event and his appearance in the swapna of Venkataramana achar
    has proved without doubt that Sri Wodeyaru is very much a Rudramsharu.
    Venkataramana achar, who was thus blessed by Sri Sankarshanaru had
    composed Sri Sankarshana Kavacham, Kalpadharu Stotra, Mangalashtakam
    and Navrathna Malika.

    Sri Sankarashana Wodeyaru was a ‘parama bhakta gnanai’, and a great expert
    in shastras. A yathi varenyaru who had written a commentary on
    harikathamruthasara – His dyana and darshana will guide us towards the
    right path.

    Acknowledgement : The above is a brief taken from ‘Sri Sankarshana


    Vijayam’ authored by Late Sri N.S. Lakshmana Rao, Arani.

    Collection by Narahari Sumadhwa (9916904341)

    [email protected]

    You might also like