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28 THE LIFE OF KAMANUJA. CH. V.
CHAPTER V.
BAMANUJA.
His birth and sliulies.
Yamun^harya was tlius troubled in his mind as to a competent
successor to whom to hand.'j^n/ the Torch of Faith for
posterity His disciple Nambi oi-MatApurna ' had proceeded
to The Holy Mount of Tirupati to live there for a time in the
service of the Lord seated therein (VenkatSchala-pati). He had
two sisters, Bhumip-pirsitti and Periya-pir&tti, or Bhu-devi and
Srx-devi. The elder Bhu-devi was maiTied to Asuri KeSavapperumal,
the performer of many Yagas,—i-esiding at Sriperumbudur.^
Sri-devi'was married to Kamalanayana-bhatta
of the Vatta-mani clan, residing at AJazhalai-mangalam.
Of Bhu-devi * was born RS.tnanuja, the Great Keformer and
Religionist of the 1:2th century,'' just as RSima was born of
Kansalya and Krishna of Devaki. Of him it is written :
" It is the First Atlanta that became Lakshmana next.
And Balabhadra next, again the One next in Kali."
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And this One was the Great Rfijna,nuja born in the Kali
Age, as the Spiritual Sun to dispel the darknes of sin and
ignorance, reigning rampant as said in the verse :
11% ^% ?i3T% #-rrT ^i^m Tmr \tw- 1
' See No. 23, Hierarchic Table, Lives of Azhvars.
" Near Madras.
' Also called Dyatimati.
* Also called Kautiinatt.
* See No. 27, Hierarchic Table to our Lives of Azhrars, (A. C. 1017).
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Yadavagiri-iltahtitmya, I, 32.
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Jihamshyat-purdna.