History and Significance of Mantralaya Sri Raghavendra Swamy Matam
History and Significance of Mantralaya Sri Raghavendra Swamy Matam
Sri Raghavendra Swamy Matam is one of the three premier Dvaita Vedanta matams descended through Sri Vibudhendra Tirtha and their disciples based in Mantralayam. Sri Raghavendra Matam is located on the bank of River Tungabhadra in Mantralayam, Kurnool district in Andhra Pradesh, India. This matam is also known as Rayara Matam. Sri Raghavendra Swamy Matam treated as the Main Mula Matam in the tradition of Sri Madhwacharya. History and Significance of Mantralaya Sri Raghavendra Swamy Matam is explained in this article.
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Sri Raghavendra Swamy Matam, along with Uttaradi Matam and Vyasaraja Matam is considered to be the three premier matams of Dvaita Vedanta and are known as Matathraya. The pontiffs and pandits of the Matatraya are the principal architects of post-Madhva Dvaita Vedanta through the centuries.
History of Mantralaya Sri Raghavendra Swamy Matam
Sri Raghavendra Matam is one of the two matams that branched off from the Uttaradi Matam to spread the tattvaveda in south India. The matam was then named Kumbakonam Matam and later changed to Sri Vijayendra Matam after Sri Vijayendra Tirtha or Sri Vijayendra Swamigal by Sri Sudhindra Tirtha, a disciple and successor to the priest of Kumbakonam Matam after Sri Vijayindra Tirtha.
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After Sri Sudhindra Tirtha, his disciple Sri Raghavendra Tirtha continued in the head priest lineage as the pontiff of the matam. After a small stay at Kumbakonam town, he has gone on a pilgrimage to Rameshwaram, Srirangam, Ramnad, and then Mathura. He then moved to Udupi and Subramanya, and then to Pandharpur, Kolhapur and Bijapur. He later returned to Kumbakonam. In 1663 he left for Mysore later he moved to and settled down at Mantralayam, a village on the bank of the river Tungabhadra in Adoni, Andhra Pradesh. He took Samadhi in 1671 on the sacred river. The matam was later named after Sri Raghavendra Tirtha as Sri Raghavendra Matam. Subudhendra Tirtha is the Present Pontiff of Sri Raghavendra Matam.
