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The Chengleput District Gazetteer, published by Charles Stuart, I.E.S., in 1879 A.D. gives the following piece of information: "The first of these wandering controversialists was Sankarachari, who wandered all over India, establishing the dying religion, Saivite faith and fanning the persecution before which the last disciple of Sakya fled.
Sri Subramaniyam, born on July 18, 1935 at Irulneekki in Thanjavur District had Veda Adyayanam at Tiruvidaimarudur under the direction of Mahaswamjgal and was initiated into Sanyasa on March 22, 1954 and was declared as successor Acharya and given the Sanyasa name Sri Jayendra Saraswati Sri Pada.
Sri Sankaranarayanan, born on March 18, 1969, Periyapalayam, a village near Arani in Tiruvallore District, was taken as Acharya to the Peetham as Sri Sankara Vijayendra Saraswati, on 29th May 1983, while He was studying at Polur.
www.kamakoti.org /peeth/origin.html   (10247 words)

  
 Nisargadatta Maharaj -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He is best known for the work "I Am That" that has been translated into many languages.
His father, Shivrampant, worked as a domestic servant in Mumbai and later worked a petty farm in Kandalgaon, a small village in the back woods of the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra.
After his father died when Maruti (his given name) had reached eighteen he left the village and went to Mumbai where he worked briefly as a clerk.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ni/nisargadatta_maharaj.htm   (243 words)

  
 KOKANI HISTORY
Regardless of the origin and meaning of the term Nawayat, it is clear that there are three groups of Muslims who are descended from the Arab immigrants and their progeny and dispersed to various parts of western and southern India.
Finally, a group of Muslims known as "Chorvad" (in Raigarh district) are considered to be the illegitimate offspring of Konkani Muslim landlords and Koli peasant women.
For instance, the Ratnagiri district, the heart of Konkan is generally hilly, with several creeks.
www.kokaniz.com /history.html   (7724 words)

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