Dear Swami, It is soothing to find your writings devoid of any misgivings for other srivaishnava sampradayams.Such writings should appear in large numbers to keep us united & devoid of Bhagvata apacharams. dasan
Madhavakkannan V wrote
SrI:
SrImathE Gopaladesika mahadesikaya nama:
Dearest all,
Let us continue with the Acharya paramparai vaibhavam.
?Except for the works of Swamy Desika?s contemporary
Sri PillailOkAchArya (1264 C.E to 1369 C.E) , and
later the commentaries of Sri Manavala maamunigal,
(1370 C.E to 1443 C.E), there is no other work could
stand in comparison with the brilliance, originality
and depth of scholarship of Swamy Vedanta Desika?-
says Sri SMS Chari in his book on Vaishnavism. He also
adds, ?the remarkable development of Vaishnavism was
through the scholarly works of Vedanta Desika along
with the works of Sri Pillailokacharya. Sri
PillailokAryar wrote a total of 18 works in
Manipravala language (style) which are collectively
called ??ashtadasa rahasya?.
Sri Manavala mamuni later commented extensively on the
works of Sri Pillailokacharya and also on other
AchAryas, one on the PeriyAzhwAr pAsurams, and three
independent works.
The subsequent acharya lineages after Vedanta Desika /
Sri Pillailokacharya give rise to the establishment of
various mutts and Ashramams, like Sri Parakala mutt,
Sri Ahobila Mutt, Srimad Andavan Ashramams, Sri
Navalpakkam Swami, Sri kedaNdapatti Acharya
paramaparai etc., in vadakalai sampradayam; while in
thenkalai sampradayam, we have Vaanamaamalai mutt,
Tirumalai Jeer mutt, Sriranga Narayana Jeer mutt,
Yathiraja mutt at melkote, and other Swamacharyas.
An extract from Sri T A Varadan?s post few years ago