Kundalam Rangachariar

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U.Ve. Kundalam Vidwan Rangachariar
Kundalam Rangachariar (circa 1960)
Title	Vidwan
Personal
Born	Rangachari 1893
Died	21 February 1976(1976-02-21) (aged 82) Srirangam
Resting place	Srirangam
Religion	Hindu
Nationality	Indian
Children	7
Parents	Srirangachari

Kundalam Vidwan Rangachari in his later years (circa 1976)

Kundalam Vidwan Rangachariar (1893–1976) was a Sanskrit scholar. He lived in Srirangam and was involved in the Vedaparayanam and the daily puja at the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple. He was known for his knowledge of Vedanta and was a regular speaker on the subject. He was actively associated with the growth of Sri Annaswamy Iyengar Vidwat Sadhas, Mannargudi.^[1] He was a regular invitee and speaker in the summer school lectures at Tirupati (TTD). Kundalam Rangachariar was well known to Kanchi Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swamigal (Mahaswamigal). Besides being a Sanskrit scholar, he was an astrologer.

He was married to Rukmini. They lived at 142, North Chitra Street, Srirangam. They had the following children: Srinivasaragavan, Srirangachari, Ranganayaki, Thirumalai, Satagopan, Sundararajan and Sampathkumaran.

Trivia[]

He was a great philanthropist. Once, I remember, he donated a silk cloth with golden linings to a poor man shivering in cold on the roadside on one of his birthdays. The cloth happened to be his unique and the costliest present in the family

— Sampathkumaran

References[]

• Sanskrit scholar Kundalam Rangachariar
• Report of the Sanskrit Commission 1956-1957
• Parliamentary Debates: Official Report. Rajya Sabha, Volume 50, Part 1
• Sanskrit in India, Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, pg. 466

External links[]

• Media related to Kundalam Rangachariar at Wikimedia Commons

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