ASSOCIATION WITH

ACHARYAS

• The peerless vaishnava Acharya Sri Ramanuja, (1017 - 1137) who later expounded brilliant treatises on Visistadhvaitha, had his earlier education on vedantha in Tirupputkuzhi .

• Sri Ramanuja learnt from Sri Yadhavaprakasa , a renowned advaithin. The Guru and Sishya had long sessions on vedantha vichara (in those days more of catechistic pattern) in a mandapa in the southwest corner, where Sri Andal sannidhi is situated.

• Sri Ramanuja had visited and worshipped Sri Vijayaraghava in Tirupputkuzhi many a time whenever he journeyed to Tirumalai.

• Nearly a century later, Sri Vedantha Desika, acclaimed as an avathara purusha, made a masterly exposition on the grace of Sri Vijayaraghava. Sri Desika titled the hymn as "PARAMARTHA STUTHI".

• Pinbazhagia Perumal Jeer, the author of "Guruprampara Prabhavam" was a native of Tirupputkuzhi. His work is a great anthology of the life sketches and sayings of the Poorvacharyas up to 15^th century.

• Pillai Perumal Iyengar, has composed a richly versified poem on Tirupputkuzhi in his 108 Tirupathi Anthathi.

• Manavala mamunigal, Erumbiappa and many of mamunigal's sishya pramparai have worshipped in Tirupputkuzhi and have sung the Lord's glory.