Timing
Māgha (माघ) māsa, Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa Pratipat, at अपराह्णः
(vyaapti tithi rule)
“बिल्वारण्यजशार्ङ्गपाणितनयः सर्वज्ञविष्णुः श्रयन्
सन्न्यासं गुरुचन्द्रशेखरमुनेरास्थाय पीठीं गुरोः
योगेशस्य च चक्रराजवसतेर्देव्याश्च सक्तोऽर्चने
श्रीमन्माधवबुक्कभारतियतिप्रष्ठैर्महिष्ठैर्वृतः॥९८॥
काञ्च्यामेव स सप्ततिं त्रिसहितां वर्षान् विभूष्यासनं
शिष्यानष्ट दिशागजायितयतीन् आदिश्य पीठावने।
यावत्पञ्चदशाब्दपूर्ति हिमवच्छृङ्गाश्रयः शङ्करा-
नन्दैकानुचरश्चचार परमं धीरस्तपो दुश्चरम्॥९९॥
तपस्यन्नेवासौ तरुणतरणेर्धाम्नि परमे
निलीनोऽन्तर्हित्या निमिषति च पार्श्वे परिचरे।
श्रितो रक्ताक्ष्यब्दे प्रतिपदि तपस्येष बहुले
श्वसन् शिष्योऽप्यार्त्या न्यवृतद् असदत् स्वं च स मठम्॥१००॥
अत्रान्तरेऽष्टापि यथानियोगम् आचार्यपीठीम् अविरोधमावुः।
तं शङ्करानन्दम् उदीक्ष्य हृष्टाः देष्टुर्मठं तं निरवीविशन्त॥१०१॥
—पुण्यश्लोकमञ्जरी
Sarvajñaviṣṇu (name of Śrī Vidyātīrtha before initiation), son of Śārṅgapāṇi) of Bilvāraṇya received initiation into asceticism from the sage preceptor Chandraśekhara; remaining in the seat of the master, engrossed in/attached to the worship of Bhagavan Yogeśa and the Devī who dwells in the Chakrarāja, He was surrounded by the eminent saints—Śrī Mādhava, Bukka and Bhārati tīrtha. He decorated the seat by remaining in Kāṅci only for seventy-three years and after directing eight disciples who shone like the presiding deities of eight quarters to take care of the Pīṭha, He, the steadfast one, resorting to the peaks of Himalayas with the only companion disciple, Śaṅkarānanda, observed severe penance for fifteen years. This preceptor, in the course of penance itself, as the attending disciple was looking at, merged in the Supreme Effulgence of the Sun on the pratipad (first day) of the dark fortnight of the Māgha month in the year Raktākṣī. The disciple too afflicted with grief heavily returned to his Maṭha. In the meantime, the eight disciples too protected the Pīṭha as per the directions; gladdened on seeing the disciple Śaṅkarānanda, they entered into that Maṭha of their preceptor. This preceptor, adored by Śrī Vidyāraṇya, Saccidānanda and others is also known popularly as Vidyānātha, Vidyeśa, Vidyāśaṅkara, Vidyātīrtha and Śaṅkarānandaguru.Names
- Sanskrit
- काञ्ची ५१ जगद्गुरु-श्री-विद्यातीर्थेन्द्र-सरस्वती-आराधना
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