Vyasaraja Math

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Sri Vyasaraja Math (also written as Vyasaraja Matha or Vyasaraja Mutt) ({{langx|kn|ವ್ಯಾಸರಾಜ ಮಠ}}) (formerly known as Poorvadi Math{{Sfn|Hebbar|2005|p=93}}) is one of the three premier Dvaita Vedanta monasteries (matha) descended from Jagadguru Śrī Madhvācārya through Jayatirtha and Rajendra Tirtha (a disciple of Vidyadhiraja Tirtha) and their disciples.{{cite book|title=Religion in Vijayanagara Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7qnXAAAAMAAJ|author=Konduri Sarojini Devi|publisher=Sterling Publishers|year=1990|page=133|isbn = 9788120711679|quote=This selection of Kavindra as the successor of Vidyadhiraja, leaving Rajendra Tirtha resulted in the bifurcation of the Madhva Mathas, namely Vyasaraya Matha at Sosale headed by Rajendra Tirtha and Uttaradi Matha presided by Kavindra Tirtha.}}{{cite book|title=Tirumalai-Tirupati Dēvasthānam Epigraphical Series: pt. 1. Inscriptions of Venkatapatiraya's time|author1=Sadhu Subrahmanya Sastry|author2=V. Vijayaraghavacharya|publisher=Sri Mahant's Dévasthānam Press|page=72|quote=Vidyādhirāja Tirtha ( the sixth Pontiff) or sixth successor of Uttarādi Matha) and founder of Vyāsarāya Matha), and appointed Rajendra Tirtha, as first Pontiff of this Vyāsaraya Matha}}

Vyasaraja Math, along with Uttaradi Math and Raghavendra Math, are considered to be the three premier apostolic institutions of Dvaita Vedanta and are jointly referred as Mathatraya .{{Sfn|Sharma|2000|p=199}}{{cite book|title=Vaisnavism|author=Steven Rosen|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishers|date=30 November 1994|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4IrQkw5x2o4C&pg=PA132|page=132|isbn=9788120812352}}{{Sfn|Sharma|2000|p=193}} It is the pontiffs and pandits of the Mathatraya that have been the principle architects of post-Madhva Dvaita Vedanta through the centuries.{{cite book|title=Viśiṣṭādvaita and Dvaita: A Systematic and Comparative Study of the Two Schools of Vedānta with Special Reference to Some Doctrinal Controversies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NrHWAAAAMAAJ|author=B. N. Hebbar|page=29|publisher=Bharatiya Granth Niketan|year=2004|isbn = 9788189211011}} Among the mathas outside of Tulu Nadu region, among Madhwa mutts Vyasaraja Matha is the largest matha.