Essentials of Yuktimallika of Sri Vadirajatirtha

Krishnacharya Tammanacharya Pandurangi belongs to a family of traditional scholars who have made distinct contribution to Dvaita Vedanta of Sri Anandatirtha (Madhvacharya) of Sri Anandatirtha (Madhvacharya) of Udupi. He taught at Karnataka College, Dharwad and Government College, Bangalore for more than two decades and later retired as the Head of the Post Graduate Department of Sanskrit in Bangalore University. He was a former Member of Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan and Central Sanskrit Board. He was a Senior Fellow of Indian Council of Philosophical Research. Presently, he is Upakulapathi of Poornaprajna Vidyapeeth and Hon. Director of Dvaita Vedanta Foundation at Bangalore. He received Rashtrapati Award in 1989, Mahamahopadhyaya title in 1997 from Tirupati Sanskrit University and Sir William Jones Memorial Medal in 2005 from The Asiatic Society, Kolkata. His publications include English Exposition of Prakaranapancika of Salikanatha and some literary works such as Kavyanjali, Ravindra Rupakani and Sanskrit Kavi Kavya Darsana. He has translated principal Upanisads into English according to Sri Anandatirtha Bhasya and also Visnutatvanirnaya of Sri Anandatirtha.