Mahāpuruṣa Observances

काञ्ची ३३ जगद्गुरु-श्री-सच्चिदानन्दघनेन्द्र-सरस्वती-२-आराधना

kāñcī 33 jagadguru śrī saccidānandaghanendra sarasvatī 2 ārādhanā

KanchiAradhanaDays
Timing Bhādrapada (भाद्रपद) māsa, Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa Ṣaṣṭhī, at अपराह्णः (vyaapti tithi rule)

नानाभाषाभिलापी प्रशमकुलधनः प्रौढरामण्णसूनुः
त्रैलिङ्गस्तिम्मणाख्यो भुवनगुरुरभूच्चन्द्रभागाप्रतीरात्।
काञ्च्यामेवाधिपीठं मठमपि विपुलं जीर्णमुद्धृत्य नित्यं
कामाक्ष्यर्चैकनिष्ठः सुखम् अवसदसौ सच्चिदानन्दसान्द्रः॥६४॥
खरे प्रौष्ठपदे षष्ठ्याम् अखरोऽधिमहालयम्।
स सच्चिदानन्दघनो महान् लयमगाद् गुरुः॥६५॥
—पुण्यश्लोकमञ्जरी

This Saccidānandaghana with a firm control over senses, conversant with various languages—was a Telugu brahmin named Timmaṇṇa, son of Prauḍha Rāmaṇṇa became the Jagadguru from region on the banks of river Chandrabhāga. Renovating the huge dilapidated maṭha, He remained happily in Kāñci itself by devoting himself every day in the worship of Devī Kāmākṣī. He, the benevolent great preceptor Saccidānandaghana having travelled upto Himalayas attained liberation on the sixth day of dark fortnight of the month Bhādrapada (Mahālaya Pakṣa) in the year Khara. He was also known as Bhāṣaparameṣṭi and his preceptorship was for twenty years.

Names

Sanskrit
काञ्ची ३३ जगद्गुरु-श्री-सच्चिदानन्दघनेन्द्र-सरस्वती-२-आराधना
Lunar Month Bhādrapada

Sources cited

  • www.kamakoti.org

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