Shri sadananda and bhaktas,
Thank you for your kind response to the topic. it seems true that we belong to
Parakala mutt
right from brahma tantra swantantra jeeyars of hh. Sri vedantaDesika sisyas
onwards. As mentioned in nrusimha priya june,'92, the tanians of hh ghatikasatam
ammal alias sri narasimha vardacharyulu
established three different lineage maTams namely sri ahobala maTam by his son
sri rangachariar,
malawalamunulu ashram by his second son sri Padmanabhulu and vanamamalai maTam
by his
sisya sri Pillai lokacharyulu.
My moola purushal sri conjeevaram tatachari who was most popularly known as
pancha Bhanjanam
tatachari left conjeevaram to ahobilam with the invitation of his maternal
uncle Sri
ShasTaparAnkusa swami, the 6th peetadhipathi, who was his guru and teacher.
>From the time
onwards we were alienated to ahobila peetam as tatachari sisya parampara. The
tAtAchari families
used to be outstanding spiritual teachers of the time. His son sri lakshmi
kumara tAtAchari was
very popular not only by virtue of his Performance of koti kanyadan but also
gilded both the varadaraja
swamy (conjeevaram) and sri venketeswaraswamy (tirumala) temples with gold. He
was a great person of importance and influence, being guru of both the
veketapathirayas I(1575 -1614) and II (1630 -1642c.e.) belong to aravedu dynasty
and, fortunate of crowning both of them. I am happy to note that sri krishna
tata chari belongs to one his family line. I am sure our family line is more
closely related to them than other tanians of tAtAchari who continued their
association with parakala maTam like putaparti, kuntimadhi and other
gandikota(dharmavaram) saThamarSaNa vaishnavites. i had come across one
great sanskrit scholar sri gopalaswamy iyyengar in tirupati belonging to
tirumala kumara families as mentioned in my previous topic on ' issues on
sAthmuRai at tirumala temple' in reply to sri t.c.a venketesan. we are
interested to know about them and others like gaddam, peddinti too.
Can any of our learned shaThamarSanars or other bhaghavatars enlighten us with
the particulars of tAtachari tanians and the family links.
My bukkapatnam tirumala lineage started with highly erudite vishistTadwaita
vedavedanga scholar sriman bukkapatnam tirumala raghvacharyulu(tAtAchari). It
seems sriman Ananthachari was his eldest son, my bukkapatnam tirumala purushal
who got Oruturu agrahAram. We do not know the details of other son, sri
chinnayyacharyulu. the tanians of ananthachari were sri varadachari and sri
veerraghavachari, sri srinivasa tATAchari, the kaniShTa and aShTama putra of
sri varadachari, was my great grand father. from the time of settlement of sri
ananthachari onwards we were native of oruturu agraharam till my grand father
sriman venketachari as revealed by my elders and a relative late sri echampati
rajagopalachari, advocate, guntur. He was dealing with a civil suit (succession
case) of veeraraghvacharyulu's wife. That is how we migrated to oruturu
agraharam from bukkapatnam but retained bukkapatnam tirumala as our initial
and tamil was our mother tongue at home.
the same was confirmed in the hand written poetic kavyam, by name "kuvalAsya
vijayam",
in telugu by my grand father's elder brother, sriman Raghavachari. it was
recently printed by one of
his grand tanians and i am fortunate of having the copy of his holy prabhandha
kavyum of great scholarly nature. my forefathers were all staunch sri
vaishnvites and great scholars in veda vedangas and andhra geervAnNa panditas
having great artistic talents in music and poetry. most of them were asthna
kavis in the asthanams of nuzvid rajas.
my pedda tAtagaru, sriman Raghavacharyulu garu, expressed great love and
affection to his third brother, sriman venketacharyulu, my grand father, by
praising him in his book as "truly unshakable vidwatkesari to the core" as
praised by the scholars at the time. out of sheer regard and gratitude to his
brother, my grand father gave 'nAmakaraNam' to his only son as "mohan
raghavacharyulu". both were staying at nuzvid during the period. i presume
that his eldest brother sriman ananthacharyulu continued to stay at oruturu
agraharam. sriman raghavacharyulu wrote about his vamsam in a poetic form in
telugu which i am reproducing the substance of one of them into english for
the benefit of our bhaktas.
"wherein the sreshta munis sriman natha yAmuna was born,
wherein HH sri venketeswar called the bhakta as tAtagaru and asked for teertam
to quench his thirst,
wherein the purushals DhEvidhis were acharyas for nalanara pathis,
wherein the vamsAryans were stAnAcharis to rich kAnchyadhi nidulu
gracefully(nimpu sompAraga)
wherein the vamsaryAns of what an earth the santati were great sadAcharya
purushals, kotikanyadan pradAthas and srivaishNava pEtadhipathis, is my vamsam
to be proud of". one must read the actual telugu poetry and enjoy how sweetly
he expressed his great devotion and his attachment to his vamsam and
vaishnavism . He was my padda tAtagaru(periya tAtaverghazh)- hats off to him
and to my ancestry -adiyen, dasAnudasan, pranNamAmyaham

the sacred book on "kuvalAsya vijayam" ia a 'hUNabhASAndra divyakathA
prabandam'. the
pachamAsvAsam kavyum (five chapters) comprised of stotras, vamsAbhivanam,
kuvalAsya katha,
sri ramayanam, sundarakhAndam, dasAvatAra varnanam; bhagavatam, sri krishna
leela, rukmini
kalyANam, narakAsura vadha; and sri mahabhAratam, subadra varnanam
(description), araNya
parvam, virATa parvam, udyOga parvam, sri bhagavat geeta, yudda parvam, etc.,
etc. all in 363
pages comprising about 1725 poems, each had its own outstanding telugu jilugu
with intermittent preponderance of vachana sahityam and bhakti bhavams. I
received this sacred book only week days back from my friend. I am thinking of
translating the telugu poetry into english if god permits.

Coming to the details of tengalai saThamrSaNa gotrakaras, they are srimat
tirumala families aliented
to vanamamalai maTa sampradayam. sri padmanabhAcharyulu (alias dharmacharyulu
- brother of sri kurusheshuluk tAtAchari) son of sri pundarikakshar and grand
son of the abhiman putra of sri rAmanujar, namely. sri tirukkuruhaipirAn pillai
(other names, if i am correct, were satagopalachari, kurusheshulu?), was the
moola purshal to ayanampudi tirumala families. His santati in eighth generation
was sri narahari desikulu. He was very famous sanskrit scholar and wrote many
talapatra grandhas. He wrote 'narahariyam' a detailed vakhyanam to sri vishnu
puranam. A tamil-sanskrit mixed talapatra grandha on 'sriman narahari desika
prabhavam' written by one his tanian was printed (around 1940's) by sri vashnava
mudrakshasala.. It contains many historical bhakti events of great interest.
continuing further details in the srimat tirumala vamsa vriksham, the jgnana
guru of sri narahari desikar was sri paTTAbhiraan residing in tirunagari and
popularly known as sri bhattesh yogi. By his upadesam, sri narahari desikar
alienated to tengalai sampradayam and was followed by his tanians. Sri narahari
family tanians spread all over andhra. Some of them become jeeyars preaching
bhakti and spreading vaishanvism
One of his tanians migrated to srikAkulam, and became stanacharya to sri andhra
mahavishnu temple after making samskaram as per agama sastras. From the time
onwards they were following chandramAnam instead of suryamAnam. the family
line known to me are continuing in panasalavalasa of srikakulam dt. as
mentioned in my last topic on 'agiripalli kshetram and next'. justise sriman
t.v.r.tatachari of delhi (retired.), is highly stotriya vaishnava scholar.
Due respects to him, he is in early nineties by now and is quite active. He
belongs to one of srimat tirumala families settled in vijayanagaram.
One such family was (tengalai)tAtAchari families settled in gaddipadu, who
published a booklet on 'sri aynampudi tirumala vari guru parampara tanians'
containing bhakti slokas, vAkya guruparampara, Acharya parampara, charama
slOkas, mangallAsAsanams etc printed (1951) on the occasion of demise(acharya
tiruvagzhali) of the famous Acharya vedanta ugma sriman lakshmEkumara
tAtAcharyulu.
reviewing the brief comments in the vamsa vriksham written by srimat tiumala
families, it was revealed that addanki families and tirupati satamarshana
families are the tanians of chinna siriya tirumala
nambi (mitratara, todappar, siriya/pillai tirumala nambi were his other names?).
the santati of sri kuruseshulu tAtAchari werespread in kanchi, tanjavoor,
navalpakkam. Among them sri kotikanyadanam tatachari, ballari raghavacharyulu,
vanapalli? Venketachari (vanapalli? tirumala ramachandra seems tobe one of his
tanians) were famous tanians. sri kuruseshulu tAtAchri was the rajaguru of
vijayanagar rajas, tanjavur nayaks and further on rajaguru of Anegondi
samsthanam (the present dattamandalam comprising gadwal etc.). Further details
needs to be addressed. It is also intersting to find out how bukkapatnam
tirumala family tanians differed from tirumala bukkapatnam families.
In ttd. monthly magazine "saptagiri", one of tirumala kumara family taninan,
sriman T.K.T. viraraghvacharya's article on "history of tirupati " mentioned
that sriman sottai ettur tiumala nambi kumara tattayyangar, son of sottai ettur
tirumala nambi srinivsayyangar belonged to saThamarShaNa gotram. he was the
most prominent man among the acharya purshal during sri krishna devaraya and
achyutaraya times. He made a significant endowments and was the recipient of the
donor's share in the offerings to the tirupati - tirumalai temples made by his
disciples (june '01-p24-26). While he was very old during the period of
sadasivaraya, he made an endowment(1549/1554) as detailed there in. sriman
ettur kumara tattayyangar had two sons, namely sri tirumala (kumara)
tattayyangar, who came to the notice as acharya of Singaraja son of
salakkayyadeva maharaja during the reign of achyutaraya maharaya
(iv.170,10-2-1542). The other son was sriman(tirumala kumara?) srinivasayyangar
(Iyyengar, ayyangar and ayyavarlangaru as well as chari/charyulu are synonymous)
who was honoured by sadasivaraya with the magnificent grant of pedda ekkalur
village (in jagadabhi gutti sirmai). The two brothers occupied the place of
acharyas to one or other of the two powerful rival royal parties.)..
sri ettur thirumalai kumar tatachariar as mentioned in the august issue was the
spiritual guru of venketapathiraya before he became emperor succeeding sri
ranagarayadeva maharayar, whom he crowned him. he was the famous person among
srivaishnavas and said to have regilded the vimanam of sri venketeswara temple.
He made several endowments in kanchipuram and his descendants have always been
holding the key position in sri varadarajaswamy temple. going throuh the two
issues of `saptagiri' i think sri lakshmikumara kotiknyadan tatachari mentioned
earlier was the same sri ettur tirumala kumara tatachariar, son of sri ettur
nambi kumra tatachari(panchabhanjanam tatachari?) which needs to be confirmed.
it requires further studies to understand more about them.

These are some of my findings of saThamarShaNa tAtAchari family lines in a.p.,
to be addressed in detail about their Acharya purushals and their family links.
pl forgive if any mistake was found sheer out my ignorence. we heartily welcome
for any corrections and additions.
'srimatY srivenketewara parbrhamaNNY namah!!'
adiyen
b.t. jairam(an)








































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