Sri Shankara Bharati

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

16.1448 - 1455Dakshinamnaya 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 Shankarananda Bharati (1448 – 1455)

किंकरीकृतभूपालं पङ्केरुहसमाननम् ।
तं कारुण्यपयोराशिं शंकराख्यं गुरुं श्रये ॥

Kings of earth are His humble servants, His smiling face is like the lotus flower,
His heart is an ocean of compassion, I take refuge in the divine Master, Shankara (Bharati)!

After his accession to the Peetham, Sri Shankarananda Bharati visited Vijayanagar, invited by Mallikarjuna and prince Bukka Raya when the emperor gave him lands of the revenue value of one thousand six hundred and ninety seven ‘gadayanas’, and Bhanappa, presumably governor of the Barakur, the village of Kanguvalli in his province.

A label bearing the Acharya’s name on a pillar of the sandhyamandapa of the Sringanatheshwara temple in Kanikatte (Arisikere taluk) is shown as a place to which Sri Shankarananda Bharati often resorted for meditation.

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