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t1 Ig , II

).Ldit Jawaba.lal Nehru antl Sit S. Radba' ONE MORB sRI BIIASIIYA KALAKSB?Ar. hishnan wete also preseDt and thcy also 6poke GOSIITI idlo Our Swami in private atd cong.atulated Thetr as usual the Kalaksh€pa snd graDllaElhifi. Sri Chakravarti Rajaji's son said that he liifiana w.re sta ed itr full $tiDg 3Dd wilhlsJf"es very bappy that lhe Frrst Award went to a added viSour and enlhusiasm. Tle Kalslab€FaSICHAKRAVARTI ald tbat too a VIDVAT of S. i Blashys was slsr led parl jcular ly foroICHAKRAVARTI. Pai)ambadi Set lur Sr ivalsalgaclar)a (qbo is

" l tbe maternal gratd son of Srrf iBd Kol ialam

h I Swaloi iD his Poonasfanam), SrromaDi, andd I Our Swami was staying in the buDgalow of soEe more Siromani pandits lite biD, Sri U.r lsri ADantasayaDam lyeDgar swami where Ve. N. R. Srinivasan swami (Elelneer) aEdI lfdl facrlites were available for observing some Bore sishyas who had tle capacily to' lAchara aod Anusltana in full. Our Swami grasp qliclly, and progr€ssing wellt; could not refuse lhe kitrdness of lhe Aslikas of

Deul ana rleir request fot givlng a series of BHASHYARTHA DARPANA I

Upanyasas. He was forced xo stay on in Delhi Sri K' S.idharacharya, aD Acharya attached

foi about a month and the Upanyasas w€le to Pusbkaram Uttara Ahoblla Jalaria Peeta'

well altended, bv almost all the Astrkas of s€nt R3 5,000/- for priDting sri Bhashya Text

Dslhi After tbe Upaoyasa series, our swami only, for the use of his sishyas in North ThepsEted to fulifill bis long felt d€sirelo visit the Publicatioo of Sri Bhashya with Srutapra'

Ucrra Divya Kshetras gis siste's and lheir kasika was uppermost in oor slvamr's mind

hlsbands also joined hiln from Madtas and the ThiDking ihat he oould coEbine this pr€sent

cstrre Divya Kshelras were visited, to bis full offer with lbat, he approaohedlhe Gov€rnmetrt

iatisfaction. of Iadta lbr a grant. They r€fused saying thattho boqk bad atready b€€n published once. Itrthe meanwhile matry requsted Our Swami to

After O[r Swami's retutu to Maalras, comple' write a commentary' noore @sily undersland'

tirs the Uitara Divya Desa Yatra, a meetiog able .tban.

the^ toush-, Tllil'il"t]!" " "t

rraicoovened in Mairas under the presidentshjp Bhasbya. Iofr jorotbelrdiled budget availo.

of ii. Sr. fn" Coo"roor of Madras, to feli;- bie, Our Swamr starled tbe commenlary c4ll€d

tate Our Swami on lis getting ihe President's " Bhasbyartha DarpaDa" along with the Text'

i*"'J. - rtai"v i""*.a i'"holare spoke praising when $/ork was delaved for want of more

Our Swami, Brahna Sri K. Batasubramanii funds, Sri N R Srinivasan and Srl G Kasturi

fer, who was ulro preseot, explained that the of "The Hitrdu" cootribuled Rs t'000/' each'

Jtectioo of O|]r SwamiJor the Fl(st Award The book was r€leased in two voludes' by Sli'

*"" itp"J"f uoO por"fy .on m€.it 4dd that he nrad Alagii$ingar' the 44!h Jeer -of Ahobila

oever oonsidered ;Dy other candidate, as he Mutt' at Sri Desika-Sritrivasa Sannidhi at

Lew the merit of Our SwaBi anal that h€ Mylapore' At the time oi release' The Alagia'

*".i nJ ".y

J""0, i" ois miad. Healso said singar reoalled his acquaintanoe . flith Our

tn"i-ft" "*'"o

approaohed eith€r by Off Swami's R€ver€d Acharya' He said that the

S*"ti .. Uy ""yl.ay

-nn€oted with him and preseat autho' being an .AntaraDga sishya of

L tu"t oui s*u-i io"w about that oDly afier sd swami, would have been trarned by him

the seleotion was made. All sp€akers praise'l well and heDoe the g'aotha Bhashvartha

."i *it-'O'i i*".i t"t also B;ahma sri tver Darpara would be a BAHUSRUTAPRA'

ior -h;

iopartiatity and hb straiSbt'fo.waf- KISTKA and a bette' granlha tnan Srutapra'

dBesg atrd iBtegrlty. Fasrta' He slso asked th€ well-to_do Astjlqs

I lo' '

of Msdras to cotrirlbute geoerously and told

the lawyers ass€mbled tlete that the flroney

irv€sled in such granthas would be more bene-

ficial to tbem than the hundteds of law books

which vtere not r€felred to eveE otrce a yeal'

I{e bimself purchased 50 copies fot d;stribu'tion to the patrdits in the Mutt.

SRUTAPRAKASIKA I (atd th€ birth of Our

Swami's own Composing Sectio!)

The Govt. of India who originally fefused

tbe graDt came forward and sanctioned R3'

?.000/-. Our Swami was hesiaating to stait

the work as the grairt coveied only ooe third

tle cost of therbook on completion. Sri U, Ve.

Madap$i SudarsaDam Iyenga. Swami, awell-

knov,/! palton of Sfi Desika Sampradaya, gave

a donation of Rs 5,000/". The \1ork was stel-

tod, but the progrcss was very s1ow, Ior watrt

oI pnEl iBg faci l r t res for SansLri t granlb^as io

Madras ci ly. Io one year ' only a lew lorms

could be p.inted. Our SwaBi could nol 6nd 3

$ay oul ol lh is ercept to purcbase lypes and

start a Composing S€cl ioD ofhis osn Among

oul Ssa6r 's Kalalsbepa Cosbt i , Sr i R Ven-

katacbaria., of Oppiliappan sannidhi who had

his PaDcha Samskara under Our Swami I

Reyered Acharya, came forward to keep the

ComposiDg Section in bis o6ce and lo look

afLer lhe management allo Our SwaEi bad

slready located a press, owDiDg Sarskrit Typ$'

suitable for his work, who waBt€d to sell it

with the cases, r€ady for composisg. After

fixing the price, on an auspicious day, Our

Swami &nd his sishya Sri R Verkatacharl

went to rhe pr€ss and started w€iSbiog th€

rrroes. Aiter q,eighiDg. Our Sflami fouud out

tist be drd not haYc etougb cash wilh hrm

Sri R. Velkatachari said ho had also brought

Rs. 1000/-, in case it r'ight b€ n€eded, and

imBedialely psid lbe amouot (o Our Swami

Tbe typ€s were purcbased atrd brought in his-.ar to his house at NuDgambakam. Ne^i dayorher materials tre€ded ro starl ihe composiog,were purchased and work was started tighr in

earDest. The book Srujapmkasika was qtishsd

h tecord tj$e, to tbe sl]rprise of €ven theprintirg pre66 owDers. Sri Ramanujam of StiRamakrish!a Ptintitig works und€ttook to'dothe Stdking of the fornds at a cone$sioE rat€.He even used to remove the fotm runling rnthe machire aDd gave ptiotity for Our Swani'swork. Afler the fiDish of th€ book, Sruta'prakasika, the space allotted for the press l1asreeded by bim for further extetsion and l€ltiDgout, to €nable him to get a rental incomc toaugmert his decljning business, alrd as Sri M.S. Varadacharys of Adyar, (Nelvoi) who, as

the Joitrt Secretary ofUbhaya Vedanta GrantbaMata and a sisbya in rhe Kalalshepa Cosht i ,offefed io k€ep the press in his house at leastfor an equal p€riod, iftrot more. So, after tiloyeals the Composing Section was shifted tbere.As it was very djmc0lt for Our Swami to go

there for proof correctiod and fot 6uperrislotr(as Sri M. S. V. Swami's ofrce was Iocat€d iD a

tlifierent place, supervisiotr throughout the daywas not possible by hiE), the same sectioo wassbifred to |he vtesterD qing of Our Srl/ami'sown Trrumal igai , f rom wbere a te!ant hud jusi

then vacated. This saved a lot of trouble aBdrime for Our Sevaoi ald the work was goitrgon with more speed,

In the m€aDwhile, the Kalakehepa Goshtiwas also flourshingt with dore are more sishyasjoining. Amoog them was Sri SouDdara Rajan,an Advocate and Legal Advisor for " TheHiadu". He had his Pancha SaBskara uodetOur Swami add joitred the Kalaksh€pa Goshtifor Isavasyoparishd Bhashya, Srimad RahasyaTraya Sara atrd also Sri Bhashyo.

Afte! the fiEish of S.utaptakasika, othetpublishing activities of Osr Swami includedthe scruliDy aDd prioti[g oI a Saosktit vercionof Srimad Rahasya Traya Sara, written byKoo$apakkam Neelaroeghaohat Swami, whowas doitrg Aoharyakad in North Iodia, aEd awell wishe. of Our s\r/4mi. The publioation ofa Tamil book itr essay form, osll€d UpalrishdSara was published by vbishtadvaits Praeba4'

t4 l l

ritri Sabha with the finance provided by Sri U'

ve- Kootatrdakuppam, Sidhanta Prachara

Chakravarti RengaramaBuja Cbakravarti io

memorr of bis wife KamalaIomat, fwho al one

i i6e h;d the pr iv i lege of doing Mad'hukard

Kainkarya for Sr imad Kol i la lam swamt)

and sas born in t t re Vamsa of Sr imad \arada-

cbarya Swaml (sn Acharya of Sddad KetaDdi:

Datti Swa!di). The above sri Rangaladanuja

bbakravarti swafli was the first donor of Rs'

2.000/- for the starting of Ubhava Vedanta

dranibamala and the ptinting of Upanishads'

Tbe book UPANISHAD SARAM was released

on:the day ofThuvadyayaDa Mahotsava or Sri_

Ead Ra0gara@anuja De6jkan. TbeD tbe books'Chat ' rs l ;k i ' aDd 'stotra Ratoa' . witb Iamil

commentsri€s, wete published fot V' P Sabha-

THB ?!st TIRUNAKSTIATRAM OF OUR

SWAMI :

A nreet iog was beld iD Tirrval l ikeni

Nat ioDal Cir ls High Schoal at tbe Sddarsatram

lveDqar Hal l , under lbe Preside[tsbip ol sr i

u. V.. O. f. Tatachar Swami lo felicilare

Ou! Swami o! his ?tst Tirunakshatram'

Sri K. Souddararajan, Advocate ("The

Hinalu ") was ihe s€cletary of the celebrations

committ€e, which was fotmedearlier, to coll€ct

funds to be pr€seoted to Our Swaoi 1o show

our garat i tude in recogni l iotr of bi6-service lo

sri 6esika Sadpradaya in geoeral and for

his efro s itr Publishirg books on our

Samparadaya. Sri D. P Parrbasarathi Iyeogar

swami. st i V. T R. s"aDri aDd sr i D v '

vasual€van of " The Hindu" also lvere in th€

conmlttee ana betped in the colle'lion of

fuBds.

Sri D. T. Swasi pre3ldiDg 6aid that be had

dcquaiEtances wiLh our Swami from big stu'

dent days and had been atr admir€r of our

i"" t i ' " 'g"oiut. He said that oJr swadi had

suct a tborough grasp of al l lbe Sbastras and

pogsessibg an alrei miDd. would make quick

iecisionsl abost in a mioute' wben olhers I ike

iim woula tale more rbatr six sontbs This'

6

h€ haal seen. when tbey assembled to riake deci'

sions on a Darticular versioD of a grantha

which had criated douttts in the minds of all

Dardits. SriD, R Swami spoke ia praise of

ih" Rukrhu commentary of the Prabandams

anal requested Our Swaoli to uodertake publi'

snins a] l t l re *orts ot sr i Desika Our Swami

replied suitably and said that the publicatiotr

of Sri Desika's works had beetr upperoost ln

his miod lor qui le some l ide aDd lhat lhe

;rut iDy of rbe'or igi0al Crdnthas had already

t"eo siarted lle saial that the buge Boney it

would involve. preveDted him from launchiog

on the leniure;nd wirh tbe blessi trgq of his

Revered Acbarya aod Sri Desika aloog-with

rhe eood wisbes aDd co-operalio! of thc

A:tlk-as. be hoped to complete the sam€ during

Li. rir" ii.". iheo a purse was presented, a'd

also an amount, to be kept as Reserve Fuod for

tle celebrations of the TiruBakshatrams of

Acharyas and Alwars at SIDHASHRAVATof

Our Swami.

SIDHASHRAMA: 125. Nalbamuni Skeet '

T'&gar, Madras.)'

Most of the sishyas who attend the Kala-

ksbepa Co.bti tlsed to feel tbat the Tirumaligai

of Our Swami at 25, Nalhaouni SLreet was too

srnalt for t le fo.r iBcreasing Kalakrhepa-Gosbt i

"o6 11',g ever iocteaslog requesls for PaDcha

samskara aDd BhataDyasa. fDslead ol purcbt l '

sitra a different plot for building an Asrama

ioi" ,not purpo.", j t was decided-to extend tb6

f i rumati ia i on (be easlero side completely

io,l"o.oaior fiom the bouse, wi(h a separate

"oiiuo"", fot

"n"yiog on lhe Acbaryaka activi'

ii",. gtl*o, persoDs like Sti Madabhushi

S"autr""*. l r ingar Swao" Sri v ' T R

i*ulni . S, i n. n s, ioiuasan {Engiseer) Sr i K'

SouDderarajan (Advocate) 3!d others cont '

i"r.o fit.rlffy tbemselves and also collected

irom orter Ast i*as and wel l -wishers Sri N'

nlilloiu"too uoo",toott to do th€ cotstrucliotr

^"J i i " e,"u*t" wing was f ioisbed in record

t ime at le 's tbaD the acLual cogt Tbe Asbrada

was oal led ' SIDHASHRAMA "

142 I

SRI DESIKA GRANII{A NIRMANA :

Otrr Swami d€cided io start the " PaDoha

Kavyas" of Sri Desika ftsi, compri$iDg of

Yadavabhyudaya, Paduka Sahasra, subhashita'

niri, Sankalpa Suryodaya and Hadsa Satrdesa

under the banner ofubhaya Vedadta G.aoth&

mala in a special " Sri Desika Grantba Publi-

cation S€ri€s," MembershiP of Rs. 50, paid

itr advaEce, whicb would ger th€d alltheabove(6ve) books, was anDounced. The respons€ was

trot very enoouraging; butthe wolk ctas started

with a Satr'lka Tyaga Satrkalpa. As Our

Swami had tbe aec€s$ary typ€s' pEchased for

the pdntiDg of Stutaprakasika atrd sof,e moretypes in Salskrit and TarDil were added. TheComposing Section wa$ geal€d to earnest workby addiog more Coopositors'

Olrr Swami dectded that publishilg the Textolly will trot be sumcient. A Sanskrit coriDen.tary for lhe North Indian schola$ atrd a Tamilcommeniary for looal Astikas wore d€cidedupon for lbe Pancba Kavyas. It wa8 also deoided to prirt, as far as possible, the aDcientcorDrDenlaries with useful foot lotes aod if noDeavailable worft priDtirg, to wtite a new com.meDtary io additioo to the Tamil commentary.

YADAVABITYUDAYA was prtuted withSxi Appayya Diksbita.h commedtary, witbsuitable foot not€s. Sri Diksbitat had a greatregard for Sri Desika which could be s€etrfromhis words " BEAVASSANTI PADE PADE "and his commeDtary was accepted a$ the bestby our ABcient Acharyas.

The foot Dotes for the abov6 cotrtaitr somevery itrterestiDg and useful Poiots fo! a betterurderstanding of lhe Kavya. A duent wordby word B€aoing in Tadil vtar 6dded. Thebcauty ofthe Taoil codmentary was that ifone, ignorant of even otre word of SaEskrit,read through the Tamil meaning itr the order rnwhich they were printed, he wosld get 4 comp-lexe s€ntetrce and it would be codtinuous froqsldka to sloka, rThus th€ coEplete Katyapould be easily udderstood,

A muDificient donatiotr of Rs.5000 frosMadabhlshi Suda.sanam Iyengar Swami, atrda donation of R3, 20C0 from Sri T.T. Narasim-hanofT.T,K. & Co., Madras help€d OutSwaDi to complet€ tle book. Kanchi Kama'koti Peetam Sankaracharya S|Amigal sedlRs. 350 toward$ the cost of ode Sanchika sndadotber Rs.350from Sri Neelakanta Iyer uDderins[ructioEs frod Sri Salkaraoharya Swamigal.

OTHER ACTMTIES of Our Swami whilcthe prhtiDg of Yadavabhyudaya $3s in p!o-gress :

He made a trip to BoDba,v, by plare, (with-out detriEent to his Anushtana) at the requestfrom tho BoEbay Astikas for a series of Upan-yasas at the Dewly constructed Desika Bhava-nam.

He went to Coimbatore, acoeptiDg a series ofTiruppavai lectures, in the fiordlgs and Sri-mad Ralasya Traya Sata ilr the eveniDgs.

Ile also did the usual yearly UpaDyasa seriesof Srimad Bhagavata Saptaham arrang€d bySri Vasudevachar, (grand son of Maharshi SriVasudevachor).

Ile presided over:the lectures on Sti Bhashyaevery Sunday otr the basir of on6 AdbikaraDaper day arranged also by Sri Vasudevachaa.

I{e gave a detailed Gita Upanyada, with SdDesika's Tatparya Chaadrika at the hou6e ofSri S.:N, Dave, whioh war sttended by Sri U.Ye. K.S.K.isiraswamy lyeDgar Swami (Judge)atrd.Sri Sundarachariar of Te€luDdur(Chrom-pet) who recorded:the leotured otr a tape recor.der with an inteDtiotr-oftralslatiotr in Bnglish.

PADUKA SAHASRA :

A special.lectwe (during the 700th Tiftlrk.shata of Sd Desika) on Paduka sahasla faaarranged;in the house:of sti V.T. RaBgaswamylyengarj:swami, :Advocate,i Balaji Nagar fo.lidited,add-invited:Desika Bhaktas.: Tho 6hortUpaDy4sa-appealedito Sri V. T. R.lswami 8ndit Lildled a, de-siro to ho.r the.ltite favyql

t i ! !

Wholr hc he&ral that the publicatlon of thc book'Pailuka Sabasra' was Dext itr the list afier

Yadavabhyudaya, h€ immediately snno ncedto

bear the entire cost ofthe publicatiotr aod gaYe

Rs. 1O,OOO st once. Ee sugg€sted tbat a wo.d

by wotd Eeanitg itr Tamil would be welcom€'The book was dedicated to the menlory of his

illustrious faiher, Sci U. Ve. VelanguppamTatacharya and dother Srimati V. T. Vedam_

mal. The Sanskrit comBentary of Sri Bharad_

waia Srioivasacharya was published lo the

fo;t notes to the commentary of Our Saami

lor this book he had established a SANGATI,a cotrtinuity of thought from sloka lo sloka

anal from Padbati to Padhati atrd Proved and

established the theory that the whole graniha

was fomed iDjthe author's mind before wriling'More details could be had ftom the book The

Taoil commentaty and word by er'ord oea0ing

was provided as was dode io Yadavabhyu_dsya,

iUsHA.SStfeNtVf was printeal with the

Sanskrit commentary of Kanchi Koti Kannika-

damm, Sri Pattappa Swami for a pari of theqrantha and Our S\taEi provided the rest' Sri

iattappa Swani had given more tban 10 to 12

meaDinqs for each sloka. Sti RajaPpa Advo_

cate. Mldras. son of Sri U. Ve K. C Vara,ta-

chariar Swami, bercditory Trusi€e ofLakshmi'

Duram Temple (hailing fron the family who

iui l t the re;ple) donaled Rs 5000 for this

book and was dedicat€d to Sri Rajappa's grand

father, Karlmbu. Nallan Chakravalti Gopala'

swami Iyengar Swami (C. I. D.)

HAMSA SANDBSA :

Thfu book was released with a comoentarycalled SANJEEVANA aod a Tamil traoslatioD

bringiog out the essence of Sri Desika's super

Doeric iotel l igeoce and cootaiai ' lg many

ldvetDika meanings. A donatioo of Rq 1000

from Sri M. S. Palrabhiramao of M D Bros.

was received for publishing this book ir

memory ofhis falh€r Sri Madabhushi Seshadri-

achar Swaai.

SANKALPA SURYODAYA rvith a Sanskrttand Tadil codmef,tary of Our SwtBi $agoublisbed with a doDalioD of Rs 2500 fromari K.Srioivasao, Advocate. sripuram. Madtas14, and was rel€ased in memory of his paretrttRao Bahadur Sri U.Ve. R KrisboamachariarSwasi and Smt. Alaoelu Ammal. A furtherdonatioa of Rs. 2000 was made by Sri U'Ve. N. G. Krishm Iyengar Swadi, Advocate,Triplioane for the saoe book.

OTHER CRANTHAS OF SRI DESIKA:

Oo the oompletion ol the Pancha Kavyas ofsri Desika. Our Svtami aonounced lhat all thebooks of Sri Desika, so far released and to bepublished would be givel (almost at l€ss tbanhalftho oost) to a pelsoo who would becodea member by payi[g Rs. 200 in advance. [Thooff€I is still open. Will sri Desika Bhaktacmake use olthis generous offet ? l

GTTABEASHYA.TATPAR YACEA N D.RIKA:

Jusl before startiDg the publicatiot ofTatDaryacbaDdrika, Our Swami fel l thal arhoioulb scrutiny of the book would be neededadd took up the book for the KalakshepaGosb!i. Duriogthe Kalaksbepa Our Swanihad the chaoce to study the oommentary wordbv word. fhe Coshli consisted ofmore tha[ 20sishvas the promioent among them was Lt Col.Dr. V. Srinivasao, Retd, D, M S. (Now nomor6), IIo gave a donaiion of Rs. 10,000 andagreed to beal the enxire cost.

SESWARA MTMAMSA AND MIMAMSAPADUKA :

This grantha was published with the Sans-krit commetrtary of Acharya Kumara, SriVaradacharya called " MiEamsa PadukaPaaitratra" and a commentary by oaf Swamicalled ..SUKSHMARTHA TEBKA '' ANd.. SATPATHA SANCHARA ' '

sri U. Ve. N. R. sridvasad (Urupattur,

Nallao Chakravarti, Nattuppattu, RajagoPala'