SRI #VADIRAJA VIRACHITA “#TEERTHA #PRABANDHA”
ಶ್ರೀ ವಾದಿರಾಜ ವಿರಚಿತ “#ತೀರ್ಥ #ಪ್ರಬಂಧ”
Tribute to Sri Jayatirtharu/ಶ್ರೀ ಜಯತೀರ್ಥರಿಗೆ
ಜಯಕಾರ
ಮಾಧ್ವಗ್ರಂಥಾನ್
ಸ್ವಬಂಧೂನಿವ ಸರಸಹೃದಾಲಿಂಗ್ಯ ವಿಜ್ಞಾತಭಾವಃ
ಸಂಯೋಜ್ಯಾಲಂಕೃತಾಭಿಃ
ಸ್ವಸಹಜಯಮತಿಸಂಭೂತವಾಗ್ಭಿರ್ವದೂಭಿಃ|
ಕೃತ್ವಾನ್ಯೋಕ್ತೀಶ್ಚ
ದಾಸೀಃ ಬುಧಹೃದಯಗೃಹಂ ಪ್ರೌಢವೃತ್ತೀಶ್ಚ ವೃತ್ತೀಃ
ದತ್ವಾsನ್ಯೋನ್ಯಾಭಿಯೋಗಂ
ಜಯಮುನಿರಸಕೃದ್ ವೀಕ್ಷ್ಯ ರೇಮೇ ಕೃತಾರ್ಥಃ||13||
MAdhwagranThAn
swabanDhUniva sarasagrydAlingya vijnAtaBhAvaha
samyOjyAlankrutABhihi
swasahajayamatisamBhUtavAgBhirvadUBhihi|
KrutwAnyOkteeshcha
dAsIhi buDhahrudayagruham prauDhavrutteeshcha vrutteehi datwA(s)nyOnyABhiyOgam
jayamurasakrud veekShya rEmE krutArThaha||13||
यत्र
माध्वग्रन्थान् स्वबन्धूनिव सरसहृदालिन्ग्य विज्ञातभावः
सम्यॊज्यालन्कृताभिः
स्वसहजयमतिसम्भूतवाग्भिर्वदूभिः।
क्रुत्वान्यॊक्तीश्च
दासीः बुधहृदयगृहं प्रौढवृत्तीश्च वृत्तीः
दत्वाsन्यॊन्याभियॊगं जयमुनिरसकृद् वीक्ष्य रॆमॆ कृतार्थः॥१३॥
SUMMARY: Sri Jayatirtharu embraced the sacred works such
as Bhashya of Sri Madhwacharyaru with affection as though they were his nearest
and most intimate relatives. Further, he enquired about their welfare; having
understood their emotions and the most intricate views hidden in those works,
he decorated them like a bride with his inherent wisdom by using brilliant
critical evaluation he was endowed with; he converted various other critiques
and criticizers of the Bhashya and other works of Sri Madhwacharyaru into
servants and attenders; he then set up a residence to that bride in his heart,
provided her with the services of scholars in the form of his scholarly
analyses and critical exploration that would serve the bride as a means of
livelihood. Sri Jayatirtharu commented several times on the original works of
Sri Madhwaru, explored and epitomized the correlation between those works and
thereby attained satisfaction.
Sri Vadirajaru has likened the works of Sri Madhwaru to a
bride and the commentaries of Sri Jayatirtharu on those works to decorative
articles.
Sri Jayatirtharu is more popular as Sri Teekacharyaru,
Teekakrutpadaru or Teekarayaru. A person who has studied and completely
mastered Srimannyayasudha is considered to be an exemplary scholar among the
Madhwas. Srimannyayasudha is a commentary by Sri Jayatirtharu on Anu Vyakhyana
of Sri Madhwacharyaru.
He is said to be the sixth pontiff in the lineage of
Madhwa Peetha after Sri Madhwacharyaru. According to a legend, Sri Jayatirtharu
is an Amshavatara of Lord Indra and Sri Shesha Devaru. Originally, Arjuna,
younger brother of Dharmaraja, was an Amshavatara of Indra and Shesha Devaru.
After the war of Kurukshetra ended and YudhiShThira became the king, Lord
Krishna returned to his capital city of Dwaraka. In the absence of Sri Krishna,
it is said that once Arjuna boasted to be the lone destroyer of the Kuru Army.
He did not mention the name of Sri Krishna because of whose presence, Arjuna
could win against Bheeshma, Drona and even Karna. This momentary exhibition of ‘fake
pride’ and ‘false vanity’ by Arjuna was criticized by Bheemasena by stating
that Arjuna was behaving like a beast. Arjuna then regretted. However, he could
not escape from the ‘beastly’ sin and therefore he was born as a bullock in
Udupi during the life of Sri Madhwaru. Whenever Sri Madhwaru was teaching his
disciples, this bullock used to be present. Once it so happened that Sri
Madhwaru expressed his desire to compose Brahmasutra Bhashya and Anu Vyakhyana
in front of his disciples. Each and every disciple of Sri Madhwaru felt he would
be chosen by Sri Madhwaru to write or take down the commentaries spelt by Sri
Madhwaru, who just smiled and said that the commentaries would be taken down by
the ox that was sitting there, as usual. The enraged disciples are said to have
cursed the ox to die of snake bite. The ox died of a snake bite a few days
later. It is believed that the same ox was born as the fourth son of a
subordinate king and his original name was Dondo Raghunath Panth and the surname
of the family was Deshapande belonging to Deshastha Madhwa community. Raghunath
Panth was an expert in riding horses and was endowed with a luxurious life.
Once, Dondo Raghunath Panth was trying to drink water
from Bheema River by sitting on the horse back. Sri Akshobhya Tirtharu, who was
camping on the banks of Bheema River saw this and asked him: “Kim pashuhu pUrva
deehe” (Were you born as a beast in the previous birth?), which was
coincidentally a fact. Raghunatha Panth immediately remembered his previous
birth as a bullock and the days he had spent listening the discourses of Sri
Madhwaru. This trivial incident transformed the life of Dondoraya Raghunatha
Panth as he immediately renounced worldly life and became a disciple of Sri
Akshobhya Tirtharu.
Sri Jayatirtharu is credited with twenty-two works. Of
them, eighteen works are commentaries on all the works of Sri Madhwaru. The
penetrative, extravagant, elaborate and highly scholarly works of Sri
Jayatirtharu are authoritative.
He is said to have done penance in Yeragola Cave. It was
during his stay in this cave that Srimannyasudha and other great works were
composed by Sri Jayatirtharu. Yeragola is about one kilometer from Chittapura
in Yadgir district. He is considered to be one among the three most revered
masters of Dwaita Philosophy with Sri Madhwacharyaru and Sri Vyasaru being the
other two. He was a contemporary of Sri Vidyaranya and Muslim king Fireoze
Shah.
There are several books on the life and works of Sri
Jayatirtharu.
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