Raghavendra Theertha (1595–1671) was a Hindu saint and philosopher who served as the head of the Sri Mutt in Kumbakonam

Kumbakonam

Kumbakonam , also spelt as Coombaconum in the records of British India , is a town and a special grade municipality in the Thanjavur district in the southeast Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Located 40 kilometres from Thanjavur and 272 kilometres from Chennai, it is the headquarters of the Kumbakonam...

 from 1624 to 1636. He wrote a commentary Sudha Parimala on the Nyaya Sudha, an exposition of Dvaita

Dvaita

Dvaita is a school of Vedanta founded by Shri Madhvacharya....

 philosophy. His samadhi

Samadhi

Samadhi in Hinduism, Buddhism,Jainism, Sikhism and yogic schools is a higher level of concentrated meditation, or dhyāna. In the yoga tradition, it is the eighth and final limb identified in the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali....

in Mantralayam

Mantralayam

Mantralaya is a town in Kurnool district in Andhra Pradesh, India. It lies on the banks of the Tungabhadra river on the border with neighbouring Karnataka state. It is also called as Manchale...

 in the present-day Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh , is one of the 28 states of India, situated on the southeastern coast of India. It is India's fourth largest state by area and fifth largest by population. Its capital and largest city by population is Hyderabad.The total GDP of Andhra Pradesh is $100 billion and is ranked third...

 is an important place of pilgrimage.

Raghavendra was born Venkatanatha in the town of Bhuvanagiri

Bhuvanagiri, Tamil Nadu

Bhuvanagiri is a panchayat town in Cuddalore district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.- Geography :Bhuvanagiri is located at . It has an average elevation of 11 metres . Bhuvanagiri is located 7 km from the temple town Chidambaram....

 in the present-day Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

 to Kannada

Kannada language

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-speaking Madhwa Brahmin parents in 1595 or 1598 or 1601.