Satyapramoda Tirtha (

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:Satyāpramoda Tīrtha; 1918 – 3 November 1997, was an Indian

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and the pontiff of

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, a

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(mutt) dedicated to

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philosophy, which has a large following in southern

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. He served as the 41st pontiff of Madhvacharya Peetha -

from 2 February 1948 – 3 November 1997. He had established Jayateertha Vidyapeetha in Bangalore in 1989.

Jayateertha Vidyapeetha

Sri Satyapramoda Tirtha established Jayateertha Vidyapeetha in 1989, which presently holds more than 200 students and 15 teaching faculty members, in the subjects of

Dvaita Vedanta Dvaita Vedanta (); (originally known as Tattvavada; IAST: ''Tattvavāda''), is a sub-school in the Vedanta tradition of Hindu philosophy. The term Tattvavada literally means "arguments from a realist viewpoint". The Tattvavada (Dvaita) Vedant ...

, Vyakarana,

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and Nyayasudha, a work on Dvaita Vedanta which has been published by this institution. It has in its custody vast collection of thousands of palm-leaf manuscripts.

Notable works

Satyapramoda Tirtha composed six major works, most of them are commentaries, glosses and few independent works. His work ''Nyayasudha Mandanam'' is an answer to Anantakrishna Sastri's, (an advaita scholar) criticism of

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's ''Nyaya Sudha'' and the general criticism of the post- Sankara Advaita thinkers of

. * ''Nyayasudha Mandanam'' * ''Yuktimallika Vyakhyana'' * ''Vaishnava Sidhantarjavam'' * ''Vijayendra Vijaya Vaibhavam'' * ''Bhagavataha Nirdoshattva Lakshanaha'' * ''Vayustuti Mandanam''

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Vijayeendra Vijaya Vaibhavam (Sanskrit text)Yuktimalika Vyakhyana (Sanskrit text)
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Jayateertha Vidyapeetha

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