Kundalam Rangachariar
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U.Ve. Kundalam Vidwan Rangachariar | |
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Title | Vidwan |
Personal | |
Born | Rangachari 1893 |
Died | 21 February 1976 | (aged 82)
Resting place | Srirangam |
Religion | Hindu |
Nationality | Indian |
Children | 7 |
Parents | Srirangachari |
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[]
- ^ "Diamond Jubilee celebrations". The Hindu. 25 March 2005. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
- 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
- People from Tiruchirappalli
- Indian Sanskrit scholars
- 1893 births
- 1976 deaths
- Scholars from Tamil Nadu
- Indian academic biography stubs