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Iyengar was in the management team of the Madurai Tamil Sangam since its inception. He was the [3] first head of the Senthamil College institution and performed it for 45 years. Apart from that he also performed other functions – administrator, editor of Senthamizh magazine. Thiru Narayana Iyengar was the editor of the Senthamizh monthly from ...
He assigned the management responsibilities of the Tamil Sangam to Thiru Narayana Iyengar, a scholar of Tamil and Sanskrit who he knew from residential education from their childhood. The Sangam also included a college ("Sethupathi Senthamizh Kalaasaalai"), library ("Pandiyan Puthaga Saalai") and literary research centre ("Nool Aaraaichisaalai").
Narasimhachar was born on 17 March 1905 into an orthodox Iyengar family in the town of Melkote in Mandya district of Karnataka. [4] Apart from being a writer, PuTiNa also worked in the army of Mysore state and later in the legislature of the Government of Mysore state. [5] He died on 13 October 1998. [6]
K. S. Narayana Iyengar (25 January 1903 – 11 January 1959) was a master Indian Carnatic musician of the South Indian instrument, the chitravina (also known as the gotuvadyam). He contributed heavily to the development of the instrument. [1] Narayana Iyengar was a friend of film director A. V. Meiyappan.
This devotional hymn became popular during the life time of Mahatma Gandhi and was rendered as a bhajan in his Sabarmati Ashram by vocalists and instrumentalists like Gotuvadyam Narayana Iyengar. It was popular among freedom fighters throughout India.
The Ashtabujakaram or Ashtabuja Perumal Temple located in Kanchipuram in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu.Constructed in the Dravidian style of architecture, the temple is glorified in the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, the early medieval Tamil canon of the Alvar saints from the 6th–9th centuries CE.
As Raghava Iyengar mentions in his work Sasana Tamil Kavi Saritham, an inscription at the temple indicates that Parimelalhagar, who wrote his commentary of the Tirukkural around 1271–1272 CE, belonged to the lineage of priests of Ulagalandha Perumal temple. [13] View of the rajagopuram from near a pillar at the entrance
Cheluva-Narayana Swamy Temple The principal temple is a square building of large dimensions but very plain, dedicated to Lord Cheluva-Narayana Swamy or Thirunarayana . The utsavamurthi , which is a metallic image, represents the deity who is called Shelvapillai , Cheluva Raya and Cheluvanarayana Swamy , whose original name appears to have been ...