Sri Puroshottama Bharati I

Acharyas who adorned the Peetham between 1380 and 1560 · Guru Parampara

15.1408 - 1448Dakshinamnaya Sri Sharada Peetham, Sringeri

With reverence and gratitude to the Sri Sringeri Sharada Peetham, which has kept the lives of its Jagadgurus through the centuries and shares them with the world. What follows is the Peetham's own account, exactly as it gives it.

Sri Puroshottama Bharati I (1408 – 1448)

पुरुषोत्तमतां यान्ति यमाश्रित्य जनाः श्रये ।
क्षराक्षरमतीतं तं पुरुषोत्तमयोगिनम् ॥

They who sought His feet rose to glory, He is the fleeting world and the ever-lasting soul;
Beyond them both, He indeed is the transcendent, Homage to the great Yogi, Purushottama!

Sri Puroshottama Bharati blessed the emperor Devaraya and his feudatories and went to Sringeri to take over the management of the Mutt. In 1446 the Acharya received a grant of the village of Harihalli by Mangarasa, a governor under the viceroy of Tulu and Konkan provinces.

Devaraya granted (1432) a village to Puroshottama Aranya, a disciple of the Acharya.

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