Melpathur narayana bhattathiri biography template

17th century Indian mathematical linguist

Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri (Mēlpattūr Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭatiri; –/), third student of Achyuta Pisharati, was a member of Madhava of Sangamagrama's Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics.

Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri was a famous Indian poet born in AD in Kerala.

Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri was born circa A.D. in a Namboothiri brahmin family of Kerala, at a place near thinrunavayi temple on.

He was a mathematical linguist (vyakarana).

Bhattathiri was born circa A.D. in a Namboothiri Brahmin family of Kerala, at a place close to the famous temple at Tirunavayi, on the.

Bhattathiri was born circa A.D. in a Namboothiri Brahmin family of Kerala, at a place close to the famous temple at Tirunavayi, on the banks of river.

He was a mathematical linguist (vyakarana). His most important scholarly work, Prakriya-sarvasvam, sets forth an axiomatic system elaborating on the classical system of Panini. However, he is most famous for his masterpiece, Narayaneeyam, a devotional composition in praise of Guruvayurappan (Krishna) that is still sung at Guruvayur Temple.

Birth and education

Bhattathri was from a village named Melpathur at Kurumbathur in Athavanad Panchayat near Kadampuzha, very close to the Tirur River, as well as near to the holy town of Thirunavaya and Bharathappuzha, that was famed as the theatre of the Mamankam festival, in Malappuram district.

He was born in in a pious Brahmin family, as the son of Mathrudattan Bhattath