[Chaturamnaya] His Holiness Jagadguru Sri Sacchidananda Sivabhinava Nrisimha Bharati - 25

[S Jayanarayanan]

 http://svbf.org/journal/vol8no1/2006_10_swamigal.pdf
 
 
The Final days
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The great master, Sankara’s anniversary falls
on Vaisakha, bright 5 (Sukla Panchami). The
Swami deputed Rama Sastri, Dharmadhikari, to
Bangalore to open the proposed Sanskrit college
on that auspicious day. The college was opened
under the presidency of P. N. Krishnamurti, V. P.
Madhava Rao and a few high officials of the State
being present.
 
The college opened with eight students for
advanced studies in Purva and Uttara Mimamsas;
each student was given a monthly stipend and free
quarters. Two teachers selected by the Swami from
the pandits of the matha were appointed as
professors; the course of studies was eight years.
 
Out of the first batch of students, seven
came out successful in the final examination held
in 1919 and were awarded the title of panditapravara
and received shawls and gold chains and
certificates in recognition of their proficiency.
Three of them were entertained as pandits of the
Sringeri matha; one as professor in the Sanskrit
College, Mylapore (Chennai); one as professor in
the Sanskrit school at Puducode (now in Kerala),
established by the late Justice P. R. Sundara Aiyar;
one as pandit in the Government Library, Mysore:
and another as a teacher in a Sanskrit Pathasala,
established at Chittur, Cochin State, by
Dharmasila Krishna Aiyar.
 
Ever since his return after the Kalady tour
the Swami was suffering from bronchial trouble
during winter. On the full moon of Phalguna of
Virodhikrit (February 1912), the Swami, as usual,
had a bath in the Tunga. The cold plunge brought
on a rheumatic attack and made him unable to
walk straight. There were other things also to
disturb his mind. The heterodox habits of life,
against which he had been fighting outside, now
invaded the very agrahara of Sringeri.
 
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