dear bhaktas
sri ramajayam,
"tasmimstajjanY bhYdAbhAvAt"

i have gone through some of our past bhakti-list archives of sriman
k.srinivasan, sadagopan and sriman krishna tatachari with regard to SaTamarShaNa
gotra lineage, right from sri nathamuni onwards, and ankiras,purugutsaar and
trasadasyu, the three Rushi pravara of the gotra. it was mentioned in the
arichives that SaTamarShaNar was the son of ankiras. on the otherhand according
to late c. rajagopalachar's book on mahabharata, the sage angiras was the father
of brihaspati, the guiding spirit of devatas and preeminent in the knowledge of
the vedas and grand father of kacha. so whether the sage ankiras was the same
angiras(spelling mistake?) of mahabharata and ShaTamarshanar born is a question
that needs to be addressed.

Sriman kotikanyadhan sri krishna tatachariar kindly gave us a true version
about SaTamarShaNar and extracted out the summary of his family line. Where can
I get a Copy of his father's book on "shatamarshana anjana sidda mahime" and the
monograph of "shatamarshana gotra prabhavam" of sriman p.a. ranganatha tatachari
to go into further details.

i have a manuscript of the srimat tirumala family tree(tengalai converted
family lines migrated to andhra) rewritten on a paper in the year 1946 from
talapatra grandha of one of his ancestors and from sri desikar's book on
'Rahasya trayaNam..' etc. it was stated in the manuscript that sri SaTamarSaNar
was originally rajarshi(kSHetriya) who later become brahmarshi on rigorious
tapasya(penance). the ancestors of SaTamarSaNar were all vaishanava bhaktars.

till sri nathamunulu time they were following Rushi ashrama sampradayam and
from then onwards they followed and preached visTadwaitam. The manuscript
further states that the SaTamarShaNa gotra familes in other castes might be
possible but remote. the information given in 'narasimha puranam' written by a
famous niyogi kavi by name paidipatu venketa narasimha kavi was that he was
residing in garikipadu village in nellore dt., and his gotram was
SaTamarshanmam.

the Second instance was, there used to be mahabhasyam bhattarkar, the teacher
and guru for the sons of sri AlWandar. one of his offspring migrated during
cheduva and early nizam times to andhra with initial as 'kanchi bhattar'. They
were srivaishnavites with SaTamarSaNa gotram. I have heard that
the nathella families of niyOgi brahmins are saTamarSaNars. at present there
are instances to show that some vaishnava bhakatas in other castes too have
their gotra as SaTamarShaNa by means of samasriyanam and updesam by the acharya
purushals of this gotra.

now coming to the earlier lineage of tatachari families, we know that the nepew
conjeevaram tatachari (also known as panchamata bhanjanam tatachari) of
ShsTaparAnkusa swamy of ahobila peetam, was invited by him. but we donot know
about their tanians clearly except that of srikrishna tatachari's lineage.
details are yet to be known with regard to the various family lines and links of
siriya tirumala nambi for those settled in addanki and tirupati and of
kurusheshulu tatachari tanians and their family lines other than kotikanyadan
tatachari, like bukkaptnam tirumala, tirumala kumara?, bellari(raghavachari),
tanjavoor, gadval, and other family lines belonging to swayamacharyas (tholappa
acharis). we are yet to know the lineage of gandikota tirumala vaishanavites
like kuntimadhi, peddinti etc of SaTamarSaNa tirumala families. i would
appreciate if any one can explain this famous SaTamarSaNa family heritage and
their tanians of earlier period.
"lakshmEnAtha samArambhAm nAtha YAmunamadhyamam!!
asmathAchAryaparyAntAm vndheY guruparamparAm!!"
dasan
jairam(an) bukkapatnam tirumala










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Shree Jairam,

Thanks for providing interesting information about ShaTamaharshhaNa gotra.

I know you mentioned our family in the list. Actually Puttaparthi
Trimala, Nagasamudram Tirumala, Bukkapatnam Tirumala, Kuntimadhi
Tirumala, ballari Tirumala- Most of them are cousins and as I know
are from VaDahalai sampradaayam. 'Saraswati Putra', Puttaparti
Narayana Char, the famous Telugu poet is from this puTTaparthi
Tirumala family. Ballari Raghavachar hails from the same linage.
Most of them dropped the tirumala once they settled in different
parts of Anantapur District. Lineage to Tirumala Nambi is one
connection. It is also mentioned that Tirumala toTachaarya, the guru
of ShreeKrishnadevaraya is from the same lineage. Most of them
belong to parakaala Mutt.

My father had collected information upto my 9th great great great
grand father. In fact, he inserted this family tree in his poetry at
the end of the text 'Indiraa vanadanam' - sloka-s on Mahalakshmi.
In fact he passed on to us to publish yet unpublished work of this
great grand father on 'Shree stuti'. It is a great classic literary
work of 130 slokas in talapatra-s that my father discovered in an
attic of Nagasamudram Tirumalai family. The sloka-s are full with
alakarara-s . My father had revised it filling in several missing
words and lines due to damage of the talapatra-s by insects and
writing a brief commentary on it. We are yet to publish that. This
Great grand father was settled in Tirumalai and called himself -
vr^ishagiri Narasimhachar - vR^ishagiri standing for Tirumala hills.

It is a news to me that there are tengalai families in the
ShaTamaharshhaNa gootra.

Hari Om!
Sadananda

Dear Brothers,

I am also from Shatamarshana Lineage and my Grand father used the title Kotikanyadhan Thathachar. My father did not use this title. Since I am keen to develop my knowledge on my lineage, I am eager to read all the materials available on this subject. I shall be much obliged if any of you can send me the books, such as: "shatamarshana anjana sidda mahime" and the
monograph of "shatamarshana gotra prabhavam" of sriman p.a. ranganatha tatachari and such other books available on this subject.

I look forward to the response from all.