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Born | Narayana Panditacharya 1290 Present day Coastal Karnataka |
Died | 1370 Present day Kerala |
Religion | Hinduism |
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Philosophy | Dvaita Vedanta |
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Literary works | Sumadhva Vijaya[1] and Shiva Stuti |
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Sri Narayana Panditacharya (also referred as Narayana Pandita) (IAST:Nārāyaṇa Paṇḍitacārya) (c. 1290 – c. 1370[2]), is an Indian scholar and philosopher in the Dvaita Vedānta tradition. He was the youngest son of Trivikrama Panditacharya, one of the direct disciples of Sri Madhva[3] He is the author of Sri Madhva Vijaya, a metrical biography of the rejuvenator of the Dvaita school of philosophy, Sri Madhvacharya. Indologist B. N. K. Sharma writes, "Narayana has earned a lasting fame for himself by his great metrical biography of Madhva".[4]
Narayana Pandita (1290- 1370): He was the third son of Trivikrama Panditacharya. He has composed a historical epic named Sumadhwa Vijaya based on Madhwacharya's biography.