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Since he was the son of Nṛsiṃharāya I, who was minister of Ekoji I, and that the latter ruled around 1676-83, I add roughly one generation (approx. 25 years) to get his date of activity.

Same lineage as Rāmabhadra Dīkṣita (rāmabhadrādhvarivarapriyaśiṣyasya tadīyavaṃśajanmanaḥ), see Raghavan, Venkataraman. Śāhendravilāsa of Śrīdhara Veṅkaṭeśa (A Poem on the Life of King Śāhaji of Tanjore, 1684-1710). Tiruchi: The Kalyan Press, 1952: p. 24.

Son of Nārāyaṇa alias Dvādaśāhayājin of Kauśika gotra

He was the son of Tippādhvarin, one of the recipients of the land donation at Thiruvisanallur, and so was a native of Thiruvisanallur. See A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Sarasvati Mahal Library, Tanjore (Tanjore). Vols. 1–19: Vol. 8, p. 3371.

Minister of Ekoji

He acquired the title vājapeyi due to the performance of the vājapeya yajña. (See Krishnamurthy, R. The Saints of the Cauvery Delta. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 1979: p. 30)

He was a native of Thiruvalangadu near Madras, and was brought over to Tiruvalangadu in the Thanjavur district by Tikambararāya, minister of King Śāhaji, at the instance of the king. (See Krishnamurthy, R. The Saints of the Cauvery Delta. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 1979: p. 30)

He was brought over to Thiruvalangadu in mayavarum taluk of the Thanjavur district by by Tikambararaya, minister of Śāhaji. (See Krishnamurthy, R. The Saints of the Cauvery Delta. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 1979: p. 30)

For the alternative name Kṛṣṇānandayati, see Descriptive Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Adyar Library (Adyar). Vols. 1–13: vol. 9, p. 349.

Son of Bālacandramakhin and of the Kauśikagotra. See Raghavan, Venkataraman. Śāhendravilāsa of Śrīdhara Veṅkaṭeśa (A Poem on the Life of King Śāhaji of Tanjore, 1684-1710). Tiruchi: The Kalyan Press, 1952: p. 53.

Grandson of Nṛsiṃharāya I, who was the brother of Tryambakarāyamakhin and Bhagavantarāyamakhin. He was minister of Ekoji II alias Bāvā Saheb. See Raghavan, Venkataraman. Śāhendravilāsa of Śrīdhara Veṅkaṭeśa (A Poem on the Life of King Śāhaji of Tanjore, 1684-1710). Tiruchi: The Kalyan Press, 1952: p. 28.

Since he was the minister of Ekoji II, who ruled around 1735-36, I take the latter as his date of activity.

Periappā Kavi had apparently the same age as Śrīdhara Veṅkaṭeśa (see Raghavan, Venkataraman. Śāhendravilāsa of Śrīdhara Veṅkaṭeśa (A Poem on the Life of King Śāhaji of Tanjore, 1684-1710). Tiruchi: The Kalyan Press, 1952: p. 64). I therefore use the same dates as reported in Śrīdhara Veṅkaṭeśa's entry.

Due to his profiency in vyākaraṇa, he was called Pratyagra-Patañjali, i.e. 'The Modern Patañjali', by his contemporaries. See Sastri, T. S. Kuppuswami Sastri. ‘Ramabhadra-Dikshita and the Southern Poets of his Time.’ Indian Antiquary, Vol. XXXIII, pp. 126-142 and pp. 176-196, 2004: p. 129.

He was a recipient of 4 shares of Thiruvisanallur, as he was a master in 4 śāstras: alaṁkāra, vyākaraṇa, mīmāṁsā, and vedānta. See Raghavan, Venkataraman. Śāhendravilāsa of Śrīdhara Veṅkaṭeśa (A Poem on the Life of King Śāhaji of Tanjore, 1684-1710). Tiruchi: The Kalyan Press, 1952. See also Thiruvengadathan, A. Rāmabhadra Dīkṣita and His Works: A Study. Chennai: The Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute, 2002.

He was a Ṛgvedin, Kauṇḍinyagotra. See Raghavan, Venkataraman. Śāhendravilāsa of Śrīdhara Veṅkaṭeśa (A Poem on the Life of King Śāhaji of Tanjore, 1684-1710). Tiruchi: The Kalyan Press, 1952: p. 40.

He was hailed as pratyagrapatañjali, dvitīyaprācetasa, dvitīyavālmīki, sāhiytaratnakośa, śabdabrahmasvarūpī, and rāmabhaktyabdhi by his contemporaries. See Thiruvengadathan, A. Rāmabhadra Dīkṣita and His Works: A Study. Chennai: The Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute, 2002: p. 13.

Raghavan suggests a sojourn at Madura for Rāmabhadra Dīkṣita on account of the mention of Madura as the venue of the enactment of of his Śṛṅgāratilakabhāṇa. See Raghavan, Venkataraman. Śāhendravilāsa of Śrīdhara Veṅkaṭeśa (A Poem on the Life of King Śāhaji of Tanjore, 1684-1710). Tiruchi: The Kalyan Press, 1952: p. 41. See also Thiruvengadathan, A. Rāmabhadra Dīkṣita and His Works: A Study. Chennai: The Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute, 2002: p. 11.

He copied Kṛṣṇānanda Sarasvatī's Siddhāntasiddhāñjana in 1670.

He is different from another Rāmānanda Sarasvatī, the author of a subcommentary on Śaṅkara's Brahmasūtrabhāṣya called Ratnaprabhā and a treatise aligned with the Vivaraṇa interpretation of the Brahmasūtras titled Vivaraṇopanyāsa. See Duquette, Jonathan. Debates in the Delta: An Intellectual History of Late Advaita. Brill, forthcoming.

It is possible that he was called Rāmayati. See New Catalogus Catalogurum (NCC). Vols 1-36: vol. 24, p. 202b.

Described as a sarvantantrasvatantra and sarvatomukhayājin by Nallādhvarin in the latter's prologue to his Śṛṅgārasarvasvabhāṇa. See Raghavan, Venkataraman. Śāhendravilāsa of Śrīdhara Veṅkaṭeśa (A Poem on the Life of King Śāhaji of Tanjore, 1684-1710). Tiruchi: The Kalyan Press, 1952: p. 53.

Possibly mentioned in a letter preserved in A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Sarasvati Mahal Library, Tanjore (Tanjore). Vols. 1–19: vol. 11, p. 4788–4792, ms. 6594.

He must have lived towards the end of the 17th century. See New Catalogus Catalogurum (NCC). Vols 1-36: vol. 9, p. 349.

He was of Ātreyagotra and belonged to a family called Kuraviśeri. See Raghavan, Venkataraman. Śāhendravilāsa of Śrīdhara Veṅkaṭeśa (A Poem on the Life of King Śāhaji of Tanjore, 1684-1710). Tiruchi: The Kalyan Press, 1952: p. 32.

A few Sanskrit works are ascribed to Śāhaji and an even larger 'number of works are ascribed to him in Telugu and Marathi. See the Catalogues of the Telugu and Marathi Manuscripts in the Sarasvati Mahal Library. No less than 21 works in Telugu and more than 10 in Marathi are ascribed to him'. See Raghavan, Venkataraman. Śāhendravilāsa of Śrīdhara Veṅkaṭeśa (A Poem on the Life of King Śāhaji of Tanjore, 1684-1710). Tiruchi: The Kalyan Press, 1952: p. 22.

Biographer of King Śāhaji

That he was as a resident of Thiruvisanallur is borne out by the existence in that village of his house and the annual festival (Ayyāvāl utsava) that takes place there in his honour. See Raghavan, Venkataraman. Śāhendravilāsa of Śrīdhara Veṅkaṭeśa (A Poem on the Life of King Śāhaji of Tanjore, 1684-1710). Tiruchi: The Kalyan Press, 1952: p. 60–64.

The above date is provided by Soneji, Davesh. ‘The Powers of Polyglossia: Marathi Kīrtan, Multilingualism, and the Making of a South Indian Devotional Tradition.’ International Journal of Hindu Studies 17 (3) (2014): p. 340.

He was the mantrin of Śāhaji I of Thanjavur.

Much of the earlier patronage of scholars by Śāhaji I flowed through Tryambakarāyamakhin’s hands. See Raghavan, Venkataraman. Śāhendravilāsa of Śrīdhara Veṅkaṭeśa (A Poem on the Life of King Śāhaji of Tanjore, 1684-1710). Tiruchi: The Kalyan Press, 1952: p. 27.

Nephew of Rāmabhadra Dīkṣita

Son of Ratnagiri Dīkṣita

For the alternative name Vedakavi Svāmin, see New Catalogus Catalogurum (NCC). Vols 1-36: vol. 31, p. 147.

Periappā Kavi mentions him in the prologue to his Śṛṇgāramañjarī-Śāhajīya as one of the most celebrated poets of the time. See Raghavan, Venkataraman. Śāhendravilāsa of Śrīdhara Veṅkaṭeśa (A Poem on the Life of King Śāhaji of Tanjore, 1684-1710). Tiruchi: The Kalyan Press, 1952: p. 43.

Received 3 shares of Thiruvisannalur, for he had mastered 3 śāstras. See Raghavan, Venkataraman. Śāhendravilāsa of Śrīdhara Veṅkaṭeśa (A Poem on the Life of King Śāhaji of Tanjore, 1684-1710). Tiruchi: The Kalyan Press, 1952: p. 38–39.

While V. Raghavan claims that the Jīvānandananāṭaka and Vidyāpariṇayanāṭaka are 'really the work of Vedakavi' (see Raghavan, Venkataraman. Śāhendravilāsa of Śrīdhara Veṅkaṭeśa (A Poem on the Life of King Śāhaji of Tanjore, 1684-1710). Tiruchi: The Kalyan Press, 1952: p. 29), others claim that there is no evidence to this effect and prefer to attribute the authorship to Ānandarāyamakhin. See entry on Jīvānandananāṭaka for further details.

He specialised in the exposition of Kṛṣṇānanda Sarasvatī's works. See Raghavan, Venkataraman. Śāhendravilāsa of Śrīdhara Veṅkaṭeśa (A Poem on the Life of King Śāhaji of Tanjore, 1684-1710). Tiruchi: The Kalyan Press, 1952: p. 31.