[Chaturamnaya] His Holiness Jagadguru Sri Sacchidananda Sivabhinava Nrisimha Bharati - 2

[S Jayanarayanan]

 http://svbf.org/journal/vol8no1/2006_10_swamigal.pdf 
 
 
Ancestry, Parentage and Early Life
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Sri Sacchidananda Sivabhinava Nrisimha
Bharati Swami, who adorned the Sringeri Sharada
Peetham as its 33rd pontiff, was a descendant of
a very orthodox Telugu family of the Mulaga
Nadu sect in Edathurai village on the bank of the
Cauvery.
 
His grandfather, Nrisimha Sastri, was the
first to leave the village and seek his fortune in the
court of the Maharaja of Mysore. He settled with
his family in the old agrahara of Mysore town.
 
His second son, Rama Sastri, was a man of
towering intelligence, who studied the Vedas, the
Kavyas and the rudiments of Nyaya, Indian
dialectics, under his father and Tirupati
Srinivasacharya, then a pandit renowned for his
skill in Tarka. He wrote a splendid book on Nyaya
Sastra, named Satakoti, which was held in great
esteem by renowned pandits.
 
Rama Sastri’s great erudition was equalled
only by his piety. Three or four children were born
to him; but they died in their infancy. He and his
wife, a model of chastity, love and patience,
observed fast and worshipped Dakshinamurti, an
aspect of Paramasiva, and prayed for long living
children; and in his 34th year in the year Sarvari
(A.D. 1840-41) a son was born to him. It was
Nrisimha Jayanti, a festive day in honour of God
Nrisimha. For this reason and following the family
precedent of naming the first son after their
tutelary deity, Nrisimha, the new-born infant was
named Lakshmi Nrisimha.
 
After intense prayers another son was born
to Rama Sastri and Lakshmi Amma at 9 p.m. on
Tuesday, the 11th day of the dark fortnight in the
month of Phalguna in the year Pingala (March
1858).
 
Sivaswami—so the child was named—grew
up a winsome child. He delighted his parents with
his playfulness, lisping words of divine praise, in
imitation of his father when he performed his
daily Siva puja. He lost his father before he
completed two years and his mother in his fifth
year.
 
Lakshmi Nrisimha Sastri was now 19, and
had completed his studies under his father, and
the responsibility of looking after the family was
on his young but competent shoulders.
 
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