Karnataka Assembly Elections 2018: Dharmayudhya in the time of polls

At the heart of the rift is a six-month tour to the US and Canada that the Vishva Vijaya undertook in 1988 to spread the Madhva philosophy

In January 2017, an upheaval of a kind, never witnessed in the tranquil precincts of the famous Udupi Pejavar Mutt, occurred when Swami Vishva Vijaya, the former junior peethadhipati, filed a case in the Udupi civil court against all the eight branch heads of the Udupi math.

Madhvacharya, the philosopher saint who preached the Dvaita philosophy, founded the eight mutts, which now take turns in serving the Krishna temple at Udupi. He also developed and taught the Madhva philosophy. The philosophy was derived from the Hindu shastras that students are expected to study in the mutt, apart from learning the