ONE BRANCH OF AMMANJI KRISHNAMACHAR'S FAMILY
ONE BRANCH OF AMMANJI KRISHNAMACHAR’S FAMILY
AMMANJI KRISHNAMACHAR had 5 sons and 3 daughters.
Our grand father SRI SUNDARAVARADACHAR was his second son. He was a scholar in grammar, logic, dharma shastra and mimamsa.. He had one son and one daughter (I do not even know her name) married when she was quite young to a DIKSHITHAR family of Narasipur. She died young without any issues. The dikshithar married for the second time and their family is flourishing well.
Sri sundaravaradachar was very orthodox. When out father settled at mysore he used to visit his son and his family once in a way and also attend any VIDVAT SADAS at parakalamutt after its being shifted to mysore after the floods during 1924.. Very rarely he used to take his lunch or dinner at his sons house.
But only at parakalamutt. The pontiff of the parakala mutt then Sri Brahmatanthra parakala mutt used to give sundaravaradachar some special honours and this made others jealous. Sundaravaradachar was very orthodox and used to sit seperately for lunch. . so some jealous scholars poured cowdung mixed water at that place . This gentleman never complained about this incident to the pontiff and went without food.. Usually the pontiff used to give a visit and go round during lunch and make enquiries. This was not a regular feature..
On one occasion he found that sundaravaradachar was not in his regular place and the place covered with cowdung water. He came to know that this was the work of some jealous individuals. He did not say anything about it then.
After dinner all used to assemble for Thamboolam and dakshina where sundaravaradeachar was also present. The pontiff pointed out to sundaravaradachar and asked him as to how he enjoyed the dinner. He replied that the prasadam of the Hayagriva was very good and he enjoyed it. Then pontiff went on asking as to how he liked the sweets (that were not prepared } and the particular savoury(this item was also not prepared on that day) sundaravaradachar said that savoury prasadam was also very good…After hearing this from sundaravaradachar he told the assembly as to how sundaravaradachar has been treated and inspite of his not having tasted anything sundaravaradachar never complained about as to what has happened to him in reality. He said,that those who have conducted in a very bad way should apologise to sundaravaradachar in that assembly other wise he knows who are behind this incident and they will be banished from the parakala mutt for ever . This had a sobering effect and all those who were the culprits prostrated in front of sundaravaradachar and asked him to pardon them. The real truth was that the pontiff did not know as to who were behind this act and this was disclosed to sundaravaradachar later on and had a hearty laugh!!
Sundaravaradachar used to wash the clothes of his parents everyday,dry it a bring it home in a thiruppu koodai when ever he was at Nadipuram. He considered this act as a sacred duty.
Every year he used to go to “Gadval” at present in Andhra Pradesh and take part in the logic (tharkashastra) sadas and come back with one gold coin and a kashmiri shawl. He will present the shawl to his father and the gold coin to his mother. His journey was by foot only. May be he used to take about 20 days both ways.
His halts were always near srivaishnavite agraharams or Vishnu temples. He knew the entire route . so his travel was not difficult for him.. If he sould not find food at any orthodox place he will immerse the whole Bengal gram tied in cotton cloth in the water which will be there until he performs “Aaradhanam”( worship) and offered the soaked gram to the deity as nivedanam and consume it. As I have narrated in earlier blog all the orthodox srivaishnavites used to cary with thme “madi sanchi”( a bag made out of pure white wool which contained washed and dried dhothi and upper garment and one cudgeon leaf basket with lid which contained one saligramakm of ishta devtha in a small wooden box, 4 small coconut shell cups, one large coconut cup one wooden spoon, one small sand stone grinding stone, one small sandalwood log, a cudgeon leaf small box with mirror and white namam and one small coconut shell containing yellow namam, some dry fruits and Bengal whole gram(unsplit). The last two for neivedyam purposes when other fruits or other offerings are not available. It also contained dried tulasi leaves for adoring the saligramam when no flowere or fresh tulasi leaves were unavailable.
He also used to attend any vidvat sadas(elite gatherings of scholars) at parakalmutt specially ones dealing with dharmashstra... once there was a difficult case.
The case was as follows
“a Brahmin had married for the second time after the demise of his first wife this Brahmin had one son by his first wife. The second wife . gave birth to a handicapped son with one leg crooked. Later on the Brahmin died. During the aparakarma on the date on which the lady’s (wife’s) head had to be tonsured (as per the custom during those days) the lady with her child left the village without anyones knowledge. The previous night. Sometimes later on it came to be known that this lady stayed with some other Brahmin of some other ethnic group. After some time this boy died and later on this lady also died. The question was whether the son of first wife has to perform the last rites as she had left the family and did not perform her duties like getting her head tonsured or attending to other rites where in her presence was necessary. After deliberating for a day sundaravaradachar said as “ghatashraddha” (this is performed by sanyasis when they assume the office of sanyasa, and for those who leave the house and get converted to other religion and those who commit heinous crimes and those who do not have any progeny to perform the annual rites ) was not performed for the lady she is considered still as the mother of the first son. So he has to peform the last rites. Everyone hailed this judgement and the son of the first wife did the last rites as if he is doing it for his very own mother. Only this I remember.
Sundaravaradachar’s only son migrated to mysore at the last decade of 19th century and started as a school teacher at Methodist mission school. Every time sundaravaradachar used to visit his son he used to present minimum of one Hana( made out of pure silver and wighing about 4 gms equivalent to four anna then and at present 25 paise) and sometimes one rupee(made of pure silver and weighing about 11.5 gms) It was valuable then. Our father sri srirangachar used to preserve this money given as a present to him by his father in a wooden box. and never spent them. I do not know as to what happened to it. In all probability they were melted and made into jewels and silver articles during the marriage of our sister sou Pushpa..
Ammanji krishnamacharaya when he came to aachariyyana hundi to settle had brought had brought with him oone pair of Padukas (wooden sandals ) sanctified by the then pontiff of peria ashramam of srirangam with him. After observing the orthodox manner in which sundravaradachar conducted himself he gave the sandals to him even though as a right it should have gone to the first son. This was preserved and daily pooja was done by sundaravaradachar as longa s he lived. After his demise this sandal pair was teken over by sri srirangachar his only son. This was placed in the shelf of our Mysore home at chaluvamba agrahar in the niche of the pooja shelf. ; may be it is with kittanna now. Or lost during the shifting of the old house.
Srirangachar used to condut the birth anniversary of periaandavan with great pomp and used to invite all the clan or nadipuram and also other orthodox srivaishanvites.
I do not know as to when sri sundaravaradachar attained “Vaikunta prapthi”(went to srivaikuntam of LORD NARAYANA”.
Sri rangachar was married when he was 12 year old. His wife was aged around 8 years at the time of their marriage. His wife was from a vedic scholar “chakravarthy” family of sosale.. I do not want to elaborate on this as more information is available already in the earlier blogs. They had a son who died in his infancy and they did not have any more children.. After the demise of his wife smt Lakshamma srirangachar married for the second time our mother seethalakshamma. They had son , daughter,son ,daughter,son inthat order. That is 3 sons and 2 daughters. The names are sundaravaradachar aka ranga, smt pushpa aka alamelamma, anantha krishnamachar aka a k char aka kittanna, anantha lakshmi aka paddu, anatharangachar aka raju.
When sri srirangachar died the eldest ws just 14 years old. Seethalakshamma only knew how to read and write in kannada. She did not have any formal education. Inspite of it she brought up all her children very well and got them educated. The eldest son became and engineer, the first daughter was married when she was in her teens, second son a k char became an officer in the armed forces and after returning from services started his own industry, the second daughter became a famous obs and gyn specialist. She also had ber post graduation in U S A. the youngest son become and engineer and started his own soft ware firm in U S A. . All are happily married and have their own happy families..
Now regarding the individual families:
Sundaravaradachar is an enigineer and retired as superintending engineer from tamilnadu Govt service and settled at Mysore with his wife.
The eldest son sundaravaradachar is married to shanthamani from pannampalli(near Bangalore) chakrvarthy family.. He has four sons and all of them are engineers.. they are all married.
The eldest son srinath is a civil engineer from IIT Madras and working as a design engineer in the Konkan railways at Bombay.. He is married to Ranjani(daughter of late narasimhan of madras) a chartered accountant and working as an officer with MMTC a Government of India undertaking at Bombay. They have a daughter by name Rajashri and she is in her 6th standard.
The second son mohan is a Ph.D PE in civil engineering and is working as Vice president of a design engineering group. His wife is from Gomatam family of Melkote Her name is Ranjini. And she is en engineering graduate of Mysore university. They have 2 daughters. The name of the elder one is Naya and the second one is Tara. They are very young.. this family is settled in USA
The third son Ravi is a soft ware enigineer specialized in computer security service. He is also and MBA from American university.. His wife is Megha. She is an MS in com science. She is from a family of srirangam who migrated to Bombay several years back and her father is having a finance company at Bangalore for several years running. They have one daughter by name shriya who is very very young. They have settled in USA
The fourth son is Rangaraj aka raja who acquired his masters degree in computer engineering from a university of USA.. He has also aquired advanced diploma from Pink Elephant.(A govt of Gt Britain organization) He is working as a software engineer . his wife is pushpavalli . she is an M tech in engineering from Visveswarayya tech university of Karnataka.. She is from Lakshmipuram(near Bangalore) family till now they have no issues. They are settled in USA.
Sou Pushapa is the first daughter. She was married when she was in her teens. Her husbands name is ramaswamy iyengar. They have one son by name raghu.he is an engineer with the Govt of Karnataka in the PWD. His wife is a commerce graduate. She is from hemmige family. They have a daughter who is in her pre university class.
The second son a k char looked after the property when his elder brother joined service in the govt of tamilnadu. He was s instrumental in getting back most of the loans advanced during srirangachar’s period by his tough stance and skill. and skill. He joined defense forces and retuned back to civilian life after becoming a captain. He established a small scale industry at mysore. given by our father by his tough stance. His wife is jayalakshmi from yelandur family. She is MS in pathology. She also served in defense forces (medical wing) and returned as captain.. she became head of the department of pathology at Mysore medical college and retired. They have one daughter by name vijay who is a software engineer and married to a software engineer from Gorur family and settled in u s a.. thye have one son and one daughter.
The second daughter is anantha lakshmi aks paddu. She is a graduate of mysore medical college and she acquired post graduation in obs and gyn in u s a. she was practicing for some years in USA and retuned to India. She is married to sriram from srirangam family. Sriram is an engineer and and officer of Indian ordanance factory service. They have a daughter by name Vani who is an engineer and an MBA.
Paddu is settled at Mysore.
The third son is anantha rangachar aka raju. He did his engineering degree from mysore university in mech engineering. Went to u s a and acquired masters degree in industrial engineering. He also did MBA in u s a. He is married to usha daughter of late seshaiyengar who was a chartered accountant. At the time of marriage usha was the programme executive of all India radiao of Bangalore.. Usha is an accomplished singer and has a masters degree in music and also sociology.. Raju is running a consultation firm at USA. His wife is also helping him in his venture. Usha is also having a cultural organization by name of “nadatharangini” which encourages karnatic classical music and arranges for karnatic music performances. Thss is a non profit organization. Usha also teaches karnatic classical music to those who are interested in it . also she is an “A” grade artist of akashavani and doordarshan. They have one daughter by name radhika. She is a chemical engineer working in a world renowned organization. In USA. She is also an accomplished violin player .
If any new items/facts are received they will be accomadated/or changed..
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AMMANJI KRISHNAMACHAR had 5 sons and 3 daughters.
Our grand father SRI SUNDARAVARADACHAR was his second son. He was a scholar in grammar, logic, dharma shastra and mimamsa.. He had one son and one daughter (I do not even know her name) married when she was quite young to a DIKSHITHAR family of Narasipur. She died young without any issues. The dikshithar married for the second time and their family is flourishing well.
Sri sundaravaradachar was very orthodox. When out father settled at mysore he used to visit his son and his family once in a way and also attend any VIDVAT SADAS at parakalamutt after its being shifted to mysore after the floods during 1924.. Very rarely he used to take his lunch or dinner at his sons house.
But only at parakalamutt. The pontiff of the parakala mutt then Sri Brahmatanthra parakala mutt used to give sundaravaradachar some special honours and this made others jealous. Sundaravaradachar was very orthodox and used to sit seperately for lunch. . so some jealous scholars poured cowdung mixed water at that place . This gentleman never complained about this incident to the pontiff and went without food.. Usually the pontiff used to give a visit and go round during lunch and make enquiries. This was not a regular feature..
On one occasion he found that sundaravaradachar was not in his regular place and the place covered with cowdung water. He came to know that this was the work of some jealous individuals. He did not say anything about it then.
After dinner all used to assemble for Thamboolam and dakshina where sundaravaradeachar was also present. The pontiff pointed out to sundaravaradachar and asked him as to how he enjoyed the dinner. He replied that the prasadam of the Hayagriva was very good and he enjoyed it. Then pontiff went on asking as to how he liked the sweets (that were not prepared } and the particular savoury(this item was also not prepared on that day) sundaravaradachar said that savoury prasadam was also very good…After hearing this from sundaravaradachar he told the assembly as to how sundaravaradachar has been treated and inspite of his not having tasted anything sundaravaradachar never complained about as to what has happened to him in reality. He said,that those who have conducted in a very bad way should apologise to sundaravaradachar in that assembly other wise he knows who are behind this incident and they will be banished from the parakala mutt for ever . This had a sobering effect and all those who were the culprits prostrated in front of sundaravaradachar and asked him to pardon them. The real truth was that the pontiff did not know as to who were behind this act and this was disclosed to sundaravaradachar later on and had a hearty laugh!!
Sundaravaradachar used to wash the clothes of his parents everyday,dry it a bring it home in a thiruppu koodai when ever he was at Nadipuram. He considered this act as a sacred duty.
Every year he used to go to “Gadval” at present in Andhra Pradesh and take part in the logic (tharkashastra) sadas and come back with one gold coin and a kashmiri shawl. He will present the shawl to his father and the gold coin to his mother. His journey was by foot only. May be he used to take about 20 days both ways.
His halts were always near srivaishnavite agraharams or Vishnu temples. He knew the entire route . so his travel was not difficult for him.. If he sould not find food at any orthodox place he will immerse the whole Bengal gram tied in cotton cloth in the water which will be there until he performs “Aaradhanam”( worship) and offered the soaked gram to the deity as nivedanam and consume it. As I have narrated in earlier blog all the orthodox srivaishnavites used to cary with thme “madi sanchi”( a bag made out of pure white wool which contained washed and dried dhothi and upper garment and one cudgeon leaf basket with lid which contained one saligramakm of ishta devtha in a small wooden box, 4 small coconut shell cups, one large coconut cup one wooden spoon, one small sand stone grinding stone, one small sandalwood log, a cudgeon leaf small box with mirror and white namam and one small coconut shell containing yellow namam, some dry fruits and Bengal whole gram(unsplit). The last two for neivedyam purposes when other fruits or other offerings are not available. It also contained dried tulasi leaves for adoring the saligramam when no flowere or fresh tulasi leaves were unavailable.
He also used to attend any vidvat sadas(elite gatherings of scholars) at parakalmutt specially ones dealing with dharmashstra... once there was a difficult case.
The case was as follows
“a Brahmin had married for the second time after the demise of his first wife this Brahmin had one son by his first wife. The second wife . gave birth to a handicapped son with one leg crooked. Later on the Brahmin died. During the aparakarma on the date on which the lady’s (wife’s) head had to be tonsured (as per the custom during those days) the lady with her child left the village without anyones knowledge. The previous night. Sometimes later on it came to be known that this lady stayed with some other Brahmin of some other ethnic group. After some time this boy died and later on this lady also died. The question was whether the son of first wife has to perform the last rites as she had left the family and did not perform her duties like getting her head tonsured or attending to other rites where in her presence was necessary. After deliberating for a day sundaravaradachar said as “ghatashraddha” (this is performed by sanyasis when they assume the office of sanyasa, and for those who leave the house and get converted to other religion and those who commit heinous crimes and those who do not have any progeny to perform the annual rites ) was not performed for the lady she is considered still as the mother of the first son. So he has to peform the last rites. Everyone hailed this judgement and the son of the first wife did the last rites as if he is doing it for his very own mother. Only this I remember.
Sundaravaradachar’s only son migrated to mysore at the last decade of 19th century and started as a school teacher at Methodist mission school. Every time sundaravaradachar used to visit his son he used to present minimum of one Hana( made out of pure silver and wighing about 4 gms equivalent to four anna then and at present 25 paise) and sometimes one rupee(made of pure silver and weighing about 11.5 gms) It was valuable then. Our father sri srirangachar used to preserve this money given as a present to him by his father in a wooden box. and never spent them. I do not know as to what happened to it. In all probability they were melted and made into jewels and silver articles during the marriage of our sister sou Pushpa..
Ammanji krishnamacharaya when he came to aachariyyana hundi to settle had brought had brought with him oone pair of Padukas (wooden sandals ) sanctified by the then pontiff of peria ashramam of srirangam with him. After observing the orthodox manner in which sundravaradachar conducted himself he gave the sandals to him even though as a right it should have gone to the first son. This was preserved and daily pooja was done by sundaravaradachar as longa s he lived. After his demise this sandal pair was teken over by sri srirangachar his only son. This was placed in the shelf of our Mysore home at chaluvamba agrahar in the niche of the pooja shelf. ; may be it is with kittanna now. Or lost during the shifting of the old house.
Srirangachar used to condut the birth anniversary of periaandavan with great pomp and used to invite all the clan or nadipuram and also other orthodox srivaishanvites.
I do not know as to when sri sundaravaradachar attained “Vaikunta prapthi”(went to srivaikuntam of LORD NARAYANA”.
Sri rangachar was married when he was 12 year old. His wife was aged around 8 years at the time of their marriage. His wife was from a vedic scholar “chakravarthy” family of sosale.. I do not want to elaborate on this as more information is available already in the earlier blogs. They had a son who died in his infancy and they did not have any more children.. After the demise of his wife smt Lakshamma srirangachar married for the second time our mother seethalakshamma. They had son , daughter,son ,daughter,son inthat order. That is 3 sons and 2 daughters. The names are sundaravaradachar aka ranga, smt pushpa aka alamelamma, anantha krishnamachar aka a k char aka kittanna, anantha lakshmi aka paddu, anatharangachar aka raju.
When sri srirangachar died the eldest ws just 14 years old. Seethalakshamma only knew how to read and write in kannada. She did not have any formal education. Inspite of it she brought up all her children very well and got them educated. The eldest son became and engineer, the first daughter was married when she was in her teens, second son a k char became an officer in the armed forces and after returning from services started his own industry, the second daughter became a famous obs and gyn specialist. She also had ber post graduation in U S A. the youngest son become and engineer and started his own soft ware firm in U S A. . All are happily married and have their own happy families..
Now regarding the individual families:
Sundaravaradachar is an enigineer and retired as superintending engineer from tamilnadu Govt service and settled at Mysore with his wife.
The eldest son sundaravaradachar is married to shanthamani from pannampalli(near Bangalore) chakrvarthy family.. He has four sons and all of them are engineers.. they are all married.
The eldest son srinath is a civil engineer from IIT Madras and working as a design engineer in the Konkan railways at Bombay.. He is married to Ranjani(daughter of late narasimhan of madras) a chartered accountant and working as an officer with MMTC a Government of India undertaking at Bombay. They have a daughter by name Rajashri and she is in her 6th standard.
The second son mohan is a Ph.D PE in civil engineering and is working as Vice president of a design engineering group. His wife is from Gomatam family of Melkote Her name is Ranjini. And she is en engineering graduate of Mysore university. They have 2 daughters. The name of the elder one is Naya and the second one is Tara. They are very young.. this family is settled in USA
The third son Ravi is a soft ware enigineer specialized in computer security service. He is also and MBA from American university.. His wife is Megha. She is an MS in com science. She is from a family of srirangam who migrated to Bombay several years back and her father is having a finance company at Bangalore for several years running. They have one daughter by name shriya who is very very young. They have settled in USA
The fourth son is Rangaraj aka raja who acquired his masters degree in computer engineering from a university of USA.. He has also aquired advanced diploma from Pink Elephant.(A govt of Gt Britain organization) He is working as a software engineer . his wife is pushpavalli . she is an M tech in engineering from Visveswarayya tech university of Karnataka.. She is from Lakshmipuram(near Bangalore) family till now they have no issues. They are settled in USA.
Sou Pushapa is the first daughter. She was married when she was in her teens. Her husbands name is ramaswamy iyengar. They have one son by name raghu.he is an engineer with the Govt of Karnataka in the PWD. His wife is a commerce graduate. She is from hemmige family. They have a daughter who is in her pre university class.
The second son a k char looked after the property when his elder brother joined service in the govt of tamilnadu. He was s instrumental in getting back most of the loans advanced during srirangachar’s period by his tough stance and skill. and skill. He joined defense forces and retuned back to civilian life after becoming a captain. He established a small scale industry at mysore. given by our father by his tough stance. His wife is jayalakshmi from yelandur family. She is MS in pathology. She also served in defense forces (medical wing) and returned as captain.. she became head of the department of pathology at Mysore medical college and retired. They have one daughter by name vijay who is a software engineer and married to a software engineer from Gorur family and settled in u s a.. thye have one son and one daughter.
The second daughter is anantha lakshmi aks paddu. She is a graduate of mysore medical college and she acquired post graduation in obs and gyn in u s a. she was practicing for some years in USA and retuned to India. She is married to sriram from srirangam family. Sriram is an engineer and and officer of Indian ordanance factory service. They have a daughter by name Vani who is an engineer and an MBA.
Paddu is settled at Mysore.
The third son is anantha rangachar aka raju. He did his engineering degree from mysore university in mech engineering. Went to u s a and acquired masters degree in industrial engineering. He also did MBA in u s a. He is married to usha daughter of late seshaiyengar who was a chartered accountant. At the time of marriage usha was the programme executive of all India radiao of Bangalore.. Usha is an accomplished singer and has a masters degree in music and also sociology.. Raju is running a consultation firm at USA. His wife is also helping him in his venture. Usha is also having a cultural organization by name of “nadatharangini” which encourages karnatic classical music and arranges for karnatic music performances. Thss is a non profit organization. Usha also teaches karnatic classical music to those who are interested in it . also she is an “A” grade artist of akashavani and doordarshan. They have one daughter by name radhika. She is a chemical engineer working in a world renowned organization. In USA. She is also an accomplished violin player .
If any new items/facts are received they will be accomadated/or changed..
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