Postal stamps of Vedanta Desikan unveiled

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  • Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu unveiled commemorative postage stamps on the 750th birth anniversary of ‘Vedanta Desikan’ a religious philosopher, at the Sardar Patel Conference hall at the Vice-President’s secretariat.
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  • Vedanta Desikan (1268–1369):
    (1) Sri Vedanta Desikan was a Sri Vaishnava philosopher and one of the most brilliant stalwarts of Vaishnavism in the post-Ramanuja period.
    (2) He composed many different works in languages such as Tamil, Sanskrit, Prakrit and Manipravala (a mixture of Sanskrit and Tamil).
    (3) He was the disciple of Kidambi Appullar who was of a master-disciple lineage that began with Ramanuja.
    (4) He was known for various titles such as ‘Kavitarkika-kesari’ and ‘Kavitarkika-simham’, the lion amongst poets; and ‘Ramanuja-daya-patram’, the recipient of Ramanuja’s causeless mercy, given in a laudatory verse composed by the famous Brahma Tantra Svatantra Swami.
    (5) He is known as Sarva-tantra-svatantra or a Master of Science, philosophy, arts and crafts.
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The hindu.




Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 4th May 2019
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