SamnyAsin names

Robert Zydenbos zydenbos at GMX.LI
Sat Apr 29 10:02:16 UTC 2000


Am 28 Apr 00, um 5:56 schrieb nanda chandran:

> But again Madhva seems to have taken up the monastic name of
> "VidhyAranya" and Mandana Mishra as SureshvarAchArya (or are they
> two different persons?).

The young Vaasudeva was named Puur.napraj;na and later
became Aanandatiirtha (there you have another such name ending:
-tiirtha); he finally gave himself the name 'Madhva' (hence his
followers are known as 'Maadhvas'). He is quite other than
Maadhava.


Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos
Institut fuer Indologie und Tamilistik
Universitaet zu Koeln
E-mail zydenbos at gmx.de





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