Guest guest Report post Posted March 28, 1995 I recently got a "Guru parampara tree chart" from India. It is published by desika darshana sabha, New Delhi. the name of vanivilas press of srirangam also appears on the chart. I wonder if someone in this group has such a chart. The chart basically starts all the way from Srimannarayana and comes down to the several branches such as : Ahobila Matam, Andavan ashramam, parakala matam, tengalai matams, svayam acharya paramparai, poundareeka puram acharyas etc. The chart becomes very complicated after the vedanta desika. Parakala matam tree is fairly simple. ahobila mutt tree is sort of parallel to desika descendents though Adivan satagopar studied sree bhasyam under the very student of vedanta desika. Andavan matam is a fairly recent compared to the other two. Pillai lokacharya (I think the first acharya for tenkalais) and the acharya ancestors of ahobilamutt have the same guru : Vadakku thiru veedhi pillai!! I do feel that this chart I have is not formatted very well.` I think they did not use a typical tree building software. I will try to put the information in a better tree format . I invite suggestions for a good software for such purposes. Lakshmee naatha samaarambham naatha yaamuna madhyamaam asmad acharya paryantaam vande guru paramparaam It seems, that remembering our acharya lineage is of utmost importance as far as daily duties are concerned. I utter the acharya lineage verses daily but I should make exta effort to pause and pay respects to each guru. krishna Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
