Kundalam Rangachariar

U.Ve. Kundalam Rangachariar
Kundalam Rangachariar (circa 1960)
Personal
Nationality	Indian
Born	Rangachari 1893
Died	21 February 1976(1976-02-21) (aged 82) Srirangam
Resting place	Srirangam
Children	7
Parents	Srirangachari
Senior posting
Title	Vidwan

Kundalam Vidwan Rangachari in his later years (circa 1976)

Kundalam Rangachariar (1893–1976) was a Sanskrit scholar. He lived in Srirangam and was involved in the Vedaparayanam and the daily puja at the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple. He was known for his knowledge of Vedanta and was a regular speaker on the subject. He was actively associated with the growth of Sri Annaswamy Iyengar Vidwat Sadhas, Mannargudi.^[1] He was a regular invitee and speaker in the summer school lectures at Tirupati (TTD). Kundalam Rangachariar was well known to Kanchi Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swamigal (Mahaswamigal). Besides being a Sanskrit scholar, he was an astrologer.

He was married to Rukmini. They lived at 142, North Chitra Street, Srirangam. They had the following children: Srinivasaragavan, Srirangachari, Ranganayaki, Thirumalai, Satagopan, Sundararajan and Sampathkumaran.

Trivia

He was a great philanthropist. Once, I remember, he donated a silk cloth with golden linings to a poor man shivering in cold on the roadside on one of his birthdays. The cloth happened to be his unique and the costliest present in the family

— Sampathkumaran

References

Sanskrit scholar Kundalam Rangachariar

Report of the Sanskrit Commission 1956-1957

Parliamentary Debates: Official Report. Rajya Sabha, Volume 50, Part 1

Sanskrit in India, Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, pg. 466