Sringeri Swamiji addressing an audience at Jalakanteshwara Temple, 1965
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This photograph was taken at the Jalakanteshwara Temple, IIT Madras. It was taken during the visit of Sringeri Sharada Peethadhipati Sri Abhinava Vidyatheertha Swamiji. The Swamiji was the 35th Jagadguru Sankaracharya of the Sringeri Sarada Pitha. The Pitha was established in the 8th century CE by the saint Adi Sankara. It is situated in Sringeri, Chikkamagaluru District in Karnataka. Swamiji visited IIT Madras in 1965, most likely as a part of his all-India tour which began in June 1964.
According to an article, the Swamiji was inclined towards learning yoga apart from the scriptures such as Bhagavad Gita Bhashyam, Brahma Sutra Bhashyam and Bhashyam of Isa, Kena, Katha and Taittireya Upanishads. At the Sringeri Matha, Sri Abhinava Vidyatheertha Swamiji improved the affairs of the institution. He started a girls’ school at Sringeri, provided irrigation facilities and cultivable land and also established more mathas around the country in the course of his tenure as Jagadguru. His tenure as Jagadguru ran from 1954 until 1989.
Seen in the photograph, Mr. Y. S. Ramaswamy (Superintending Engineer, seated to Swamiji’s left hand side).
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