English: Vidyāraṇya will long be remembered as the greatest pontiff at Śṛṅgeri of the seat of Śaṅkara who established his monasteries in different places in India with his order of several monks to propagate Advaita that he so lovingly taught in his short span of life of thirty-two years. Vidyāraṇya’s name is perpetuated in the name Vidyānagara for Ānugundi. This portrait of Vidyāraṇya in a painting ranks in importance with the portrait of Śaṅkara himself, who lived in the eighth century, and who has been immortalised in a portrait of his as a young boy of twelve, seated with hands clasped by the side of Vyāsa to the right of a niche enshrining Dakṣiṇamūrti in a miniature Pallava temple at Kāñchīpuram