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{{Short description|Tenkalai Sri Vaishnava at Melkote, Karnataka}}
{{Infobox monastery
| name = Yadugiri Yathiraja Mutt
| native_name = ಯದುಗಿರಿ ಯತಿರಾಜ ಮಠ
| native_name_lang = kan
| order = [[Sri Vaishnava]]
| denomination = [[Sri Vaishnavism#Vadakalai and Tenkalai denominations|Tenkalai]]
| founder = [[Ramanujacharya]]
| established = 12th Century
| location = [[Melkote]], [[Karnataka]]
| country = [[India]]
| coordinates = {{coord|12.661036|N|76.648546|E}}
| public_access = Yes
| website=http://www.yathirajamutt.com/}}
{{Vaishnavism}}
{{Hinduism}}
'''Yadugiri Yathiraja Mutt''' at [[Melkote]] is a [[Sri Vaishnavism#Vadakalai and Tenkalai denominations|Tenkalai]] [[Sri Vaishnava]] [[Matha|Mutt]] founded by [[Ramanujacharya]] for the management of [[Cheluvanarayana Swamy Temple]] and the propagation of Ramanuja [[Vishishtadvaita]] [[Darshana (Hinduism)|darshana]]. Yathiraja is also another name for Ramanuja.<ref name=":sarojini">{{cite book |last1=Jagannathan |first1=Sarojini |title=Impact of Śri Rāmānujāçarya on temple worship |date=1994 |publisher=Nag Publishers |location=Delhi |isbn=8170812887 |edition=1st | quote= In a dream, the Lord bade Ramanuja to move to Melkote, where he would find the holy earth. Accordingly, the next morning he found the holy earth and a vigraha of the Lord. In due course, he was installed Tirunarayana. In the Bahudhanya year, Pushyamasa Shukla Paksha, Chaturdashi, the deity was given a holy bath and worship. Once the deity was installed according to Pancharatra agama, Ramanuja himself worshipped it for three days, followed by samprokshanam and recited Oru Nayagam Tiruvaimoli, and subsequently, the Yati Raja math was established. }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Brahmavâdin |date=1910 |publisher=M.C. Alasingaperumal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E6xVAAAAYAAJ&q=Yatiraja+Mutt |language=en}}</ref>

==Establishment==
After Ramanujacharya was made the [[rajguru]] of [[Hoysala Empire]], [[Lord Vishnu]] in a dream ordered Ramanuja to move to Melkote, where he would find the holy earth. Traditional accounts mention that the reason for travel was to search for namam clay for [[Srivaishnava Urdhva Pundra]] which was abundant in Melkote. Upon traveling, he found the holy earth and a [[vigraha]] of the god under an [[Ant colony|ant hill]] which was subsequently installed as the deity Tirunarayana of Melkote in the Bahudhanya year, [[Pushya]]masa, [[Paksha#Shukla Paksha|Shukla Paksha]], [[Chaturdashi]] according to [[Pancharatra]] [[Agama (Hinduism)|agama]]. Ramanuja worshipped it for three days, followed by [[kumbhabhishekham]] and recited [[Naalayira Divya Prabandham|tamil vedas]]. Subsequently, the Yadugiri Yathiraja Mutt was established for a [[sanyasi]] to live and manage the affairs of the temple. The Jeeyars of the mutt attracted devotees and received royal patronage by their scholarship, devotion, and other qualities.<ref name=":sarojini"/> The mutt is entitled for a share in the properties, assets, funds, and services in the [[Cheluvanarayana Swamy Temple]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Melukote Through the Ages |date=1998 |publisher=Academy of Sanskrit Research |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FiZuAAAAMAAJ&q=yadugiri |language=en}}</ref> By 1256, Bhashyakara Sannidhi, a shrine for Ramanuja had been built and a Ramanuja Kutam, a choultry for feeding was provided a grant.<ref name=":sarojini"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Pārttacārati |first1=Intirā |title=Ramanujar: The Life and Ideas of Ramanuja |date=2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-569161-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-T4aAQAAIAAJ&q=Yatiraja+Mutt |language=en}}</ref>

==Guruparamparai==
Ramanuja created a temple manual Niyamanappadi for the systematic application of temple activities and left the administration to his fifty-two pratama [[sishya]]s with Tiruvali Annan of Sadamarshana [[gotra]], [[Apastamba Dharmasutra]], [[Yajurveda]] [[shakha]] carrying out the orders of Jeeyar.<ref name=":sarojini"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Krishnamachari |first1=Suganthy |title=Administration in the Melkote temple |url=https://www.thehindu.com/society/history-and-culture/Udayavar-and-the-powerful-52/article16992950.ece |website=The Hindu |language=en-IN |date=5 January 2017 |access-date=26 May 2022 |archive-date=26 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526024359/https://www.thehindu.com/society/history-and-culture/Udayavar-and-the-powerful-52/article16992950.ece |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1104, Ramanuja appointed Sri Deshantari Kelvi Tiru-Narayana Jeeyar as his successor at the mutt to propagate growth and was handed Cheluvanarayana Swamy Temple [[mudra]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Narasimhiengar |first1=M. T. |last2=F. |first2=J. F. |title=Ramanuja and Melukote |journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland |date=1915 |pages=147–152 |jstor=25189291 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25189291 |issn=0035-869X |access-date=2022-05-26 |archive-date=2022-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526033727/https://www.jstor.org/stable/25189291 |url-status=live }}</ref> With Ramanuja's motivating grace and as enshrined in the rule book Niyamanappadi, the Jeeyars continued the [[nitya karma|nitya]] bhagavat aradhana in & around the temple. The duties of the successor Jeeyars were to sign the papers relating to the temple treasury, look after the temple property, employ people for receiving all the income from the offerings, put his seal in addition to the royal seal and Ramanuja-mudre and receive the same honors that the 52 pratama sishyas were entitled to.<ref>{{cite book |title=Annual Report Of The Archaeological Survey Of Mysore For The Year 1904 To 1913 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.107048/page/n31/mode/1up}}</ref> The current Jeeyar is Sri Yadugiri Yatiraja Narayana Ramanuja Jeeyar Swami.<ref>{{cite web |title=Guruparamparai |url=http://www.yathirajamutt.org/guruparamparai.html |website=www.yathirajamutt.org |access-date=2022-05-23 |archive-date=2022-07-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701125711/http://www.yathirajamutt.org/guruparamparai.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Later years==
To this day, the mutt has had a long line of illustrious successors and the building is still intact.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Govindāchārya |first1=Aḷkoṇḍavilli |title=The Life of Râmânujâchârya: The Exponent of the Viśistâdvaita Philosophy |date=1906 |publisher=S. Murthy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DOAoAAAAYAAJ&dq=yati+raj+math&pg=PA192 |language=en}}</ref> In the eighteenth century, due to the Vadakalai and Tenkalai sectarian disputes in [[Tamilnadu]] and the litigation that followed, all the wealth of the mutt was diverted towards the dispute. The Yadugiri Yathiraja Matha at Melkote became a Tenkalai matha, with subsects of Purvasikha, the Kilnattars, and the Mandyans representing the matha. A dispute known as the Tirtha case arose between the [[Parakala Matha]] at [[Mysore]] and the Yadugiri Yathiraja Matha at Melkote on matters like the [[Iyengar#Subgroups|Mandayam]] entry and so on. The authorized representatives of Yadugiri Yathiraja Mutt observed that the Mandyam entry to the Yadugiri Yathiraja Mutt Gadi was from the year 1850 and that prior to that the line belonged to the Kilnattars and the present stone image of the sannyasin in the Yadugiri Yatiraja Math was the image of a purvasikhi, representative of the fifty-two followers of Ramanuja.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lakshamma |first1=G. |title=The impact of Rāmānuja's teaching on life and conditions in society |date=1990 |publisher=Sundeep Prakashan |location=Delhi |isbn=9788185067469}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Sri Vaishnavism]]
* [[Ramanuja]]
* [[Cheluvanarayana Swamy Temple]]
* [[Melkote]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Sri Vaishnavism]]
[[Category:Hindu monasteries in India]]

Yadugiri Yathiraja Mutt - Revision history

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