Sanskrit 444Introduction Sri R. Visvanatha Sastri (1882 - 1956), my father, worked in the judicial department of South Arcot District in the erstwhile Madras Province of British India and retired as Sub-Court Sheristadar, Cuddalore, in 1939. In his younger years, round about the second decade of the 20th century, when he was working in : Tirukkoilur and Cuddalore, "every year (probably for four or five years) during the summer recess, sending his wife and children to her fath~r's place, he went over to Canapathy Agraharam in Tanjore District, to be for day and nigh( at the lotus feet of Sri Sri Vasudeva Brahmendra Saraswati and stayed there in his Ashram like a gurukulavasi. He had all his Bhasya paihae this way. It was at this time he was probably also a sahapathi (contemporary student) of Sri S. Kuppuswami Sastry, in whose name the Research Institute K.S.R.I. is known. It seems Vasudeva Brahmendral was also revered by Sri Ramakrishna Sastrigal, my father's father. A picture of this Sri Sri Vasudeva Brahmendra Saraswati remained in father's pl1ja all his life. This Acarya attained Samadhi on 4th March 1931. During his lifetime, my father gave numerous lectures and expositions of the scriptures including several Saptahas of the Srimad Bhagavatam and Navahas of the Valmiki Ramayana at various places in the present Tamilnadu and Kerala and also in some north Indian locations.