Māgaḍi Lakṣmīnarasiṃha Śāstri

Profiles Oct 02, 2019

Paṇḍita-pravara Māgaḍi Lakṣmīnarasiṃha Śāstri

The following incident happened in the 1930s, when Śrī Candraśekhara-bhāratī Mahāsvāmi adorned the Śāradā-pīṭha at Sringeri. The Mahāsvāmi’s liking for and supp...

Dr. S R Ramaswamy | Trans: Shashi Kiran B N

Profiles Oct 09, 2019

Māgaḍi Lakṣmīnarasiṃha Śāstri--Pāṭhaśālā and Guru

In 1931, Lakṣmīnarasiṃha Śāstri joined the Pāṭhaśālā in this Maṭha for higher studies. He was then eighteen years of age. The background of this Pāṭhaśālā requi...

Dr. S R Ramaswamy | Trans: Shashi Kiran B N

Profiles Oct 16, 2019

Māgaḍi Lakṣmīnarasiṃha Śāstri

Śri Ḍoṅgre Vīreśvara Śāstri who hailed from Maharashtra was Lakṣmīnarasiṃha Śāstri’s classmate during one of the batches. In later years, he served in various i...

Dr. S R Ramaswamy | Trans: Shashi Kiran B N

Profiles Oct 23, 2019

Māgaḍi Lakṣmīnarasiṃha Śāstri--Disseminating Dharma

Disseminating Dharma Once this rigorous study of the scriptures was complete, Śrī Śāstri engaged himself primarily with delivering discourses on the Purāṇas. H...

Dr. S R Ramaswamy | Trans: Shashi Kiran B N

Profiles Oct 30, 2019

Māgaḍi Lakṣmīnarasiṃha Śāstri--Real-life Examples

Real-life Examples He used to give real-life examples to drive home the import of a scriptural tenet. This made his lessons entertaining—a feature common to le...

Dr. S R Ramaswamy | Trans: Shashi Kiran B N

Profiles Nov 06, 2019

Māgaḍi Lakṣmīnarasiṃha Śāstri--Appropriateness

“On one occasion Vidvān Anantakṛṣṇa Śāstri (a towering scholar of the league of Navīnam Veṅkaṭeśa Śāstri) began to pose a series of questions to him. Lakṣmīn...

Dr. S R Ramaswamy | Trans: Shashi Kiran B N

Profiles Nov 13, 2019

Māgaḍi Lakṣmīnarasiṃha Śāstri--Far-reaching Fame, Disciples

Śrī  Navīnam Veṅkaṭeśa Śāstri had supplied several sets of logical refinement to Brahma-sūtras, which were not seen in extant commentaries thereon. Because...

Dr. S R Ramaswamy | Trans: Shashi Kiran B N

Profiles Nov 20, 2019

Māgaḍi Lakṣmīnarasiṃha Śāstri--Conclusion

Tenderness Towards Students Lakṣmīnarasiṃha Śāstri was immensely fond of his students. Addressing those who were with him for a long time, he used to say: “Hav...

Dr. S R Ramaswamy | Trans: Shashi Kiran B N