Dr S.Srikanta Sastri: 2025

Sunday, December 21, 2025

New Book - SRIKANTHIKA (2025 Reprint) - Dr. S. Srikanta Sastri Felicitation Volume

This Felicitation Volume, titled "Srikanthika" was presented to Dr S. Srikanta Sastri by the felicitation committee of the University of Mysore in 1973. It soon got sold out, in spite of its high price in India and abroad at that time. Soon the diligent students and research scholars began to look for a second hand used copy in old bookshops.

This felicitation volume published in 1973 is a repository of well researched historical articles contributed by fifty six eminent historians and litterateurs of South India. These scholarly articles are still relevant and pertinent to contemporary world of historical research. Some of the articles can be termed as “dated” and recent discoveries and findings might have become gospel truth by virtue of its veracity and proof. These developments were envisaged by the eminent historian Dr. S. Srikanta Sastri in advance. The course of history takes new turns due to vicissitudes of passage of time. He had predicted that new inscriptions, new excavations, coins, texts and new technology may throw fresh light on our understanding of history and our theories of civilizations, wherein we have to revise our earlier interpretation of events.

This felicitation volume contains research articles written in English, but interspersed with Sanskrit, Kannada and Ancient Kannada quotations.

Another exceptional feature of “Srikanthika” felicitation volume is that it is devoid of personal reminiscences, autobiographical narrations and hagiographical hosannas about the eminent historian and polyglot by his admirers. This is a volume dedicated to academic research work by great scholars of the day. That is why this volume is already there on the shelves of more than a dozen international libraries according to WorldCat Catalogue. Now, this book with added photographs and an exhaustive catalogue of Dr S. Srikanta Sastri's works, has been reprinted (available both in Hardbound and Paperback formats) by NotionPress, Chennai. Editing of this reprint was done by S. Naganath. It is hoped that, the reprinted edition of this Felicitation Volume, replete with rare and scholarly articles, will enable discerning scholars and students of history to procure a copy, where one was unavailable till now.

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SRIKANTHIKA | Felicitation Volume (2025 Reprint)

Monday, October 6, 2025

M. Yamunacharya: Brief Biographical Sketch

Mettupatti Yamunacharya (M. Yamunacharya) was born on 30 September 1899 to parents Narayana Iyengar and Manikyamma. Manikyamma’s father, Alkondavalli Govindacharya Swamy, was an Executive Engineer in the Mysore Government under Diwan Seshadri Iyer. In this capacity, Govindacharya was instrumental in building various sections of the Bangalore Mysore Railway line, including bridges near Maddur and across the Kapila River near Nanjanagud. He was a staunch proponent of Sri Vaishnavism and was a contemporary of A. R. Wadia at the University of Mysore. Yamunacharya’s ancestors hailed from Mettupatti, Salem. Govindacharya’s father, Sreenivasa Iyengar, had taught English grammar lessons to HH Nalwadi Krishna Raja Wodeyar IV and was popularly known as ‘Angrezi Sreenivasa Iyengar’ for this reason! Sreenivasa Iyengar’s first son and Govindacharya’s elder brother, Sreenivasa Raghavacharya, was Assistant Commissioner of Mysore for a brief period as well.

EARLY YEARS & EDUCATION

Yamunacharya had his schooling at Marimallappa High School, Mysore, under the tutelage of ‘Mysore Thathiah’ (Sri Venkatakrishnaiah). Most remember Yamunacharya as being an introvert who resented competition, disliked Mathematics and wasn’t particularly academically driven, in any sense of the word. Subsequently, in 1923, he enrolled into Maharaja College, Mysore to.....

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Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya - A Brief Biography

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (TK) was born on 18 November 1888 in Muchukundapuram village, Chitradurga district to T. Sreenivasa Thathacharya and Ranganayakamma. They were orthodox brahmins hailing from Tirupati (Tirumalai) and were descendants of Yogi Nathamuni – a famed 9th century Sri Vaishnava saint. Krishnamacharya’s father was a great exponent of the Vedas. An ancestor in the family line had been a chief pontiff of the Parakala Matha. Krishnamacharya was the eldest of six children. He had two younger brothers – Narayana and Appalacharya & three younger sisters – Alamelu, Tangamma and Chudamani. The family spoke in Telugu at home and were fluent in Sanskrit also.

Early Years & Education

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya’s circle of friends included Rallapalli Ananta Krishna Sharma, Bagepalli Sreenivasacharya, Laxmipuram Sreenivasacharya and Tirukulagundam Sudarshanacharya – all renowned exponents of music, Sanskrit and Vedanta in their own right! His father taught him Sanskrit at home. Among the precious few things handed down to Krishnamacharya was a treasured volume of Valmiki’s Ramayana (in Sanskrit). This was held in reverence by his grandfather and would remain by Krishnamacharya’s side till his very end.

Krishnamacharya’s family moved to Mysore when he was 12 years of age. He joined Parakala Matha for his studies. Here, he spent time between 1909 and 1914 learning Logic (Tarka) and Vedanta among other things. During these years, he also learnt Veena from Vidwan Veena Seshanna.

In 1914, he set out to Benaras, where he continued further studies in Sanskrit & Tarka (logic) from Brahmasri Shivakumar Sastry. He attended classes at Queen’s college under......

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