Important Announcement
30-04-2025
Sānkara Samvatsaram: 2533
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Akshaya Tritiya - Wednesday, 30th April 2025
Shri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetadhipati Jagadguru Pujyashri Shankara Vijayendra Saraswathi Shankaracharya Swamigal will bless Sanyasa Deeksha to Sri Duddu Satya Venkata Surya Subrahmanya Ganesha Sharma Dravid on the auspicious Akshaya Tritiya day (30th Apr. 2025) at Kanchipuram. The sacred event coincides with the 2534th Jayanti Mahotsavam (2nd May, 2025) of Jagadguru Adi Shankaracharya who established Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam at Kanchipuram in the year 482 BCE.
Sri Ganesha Sharma Dravid, a Rig Vedic Scholar (Salakshana Ghanapati) from Annavaram Kshetra, Andhra Pradesh, served at Sri Gnana Saraswathi Devasthanam, Basara, Nirmal District, Nizamabad, Telangana. He has had the blessings and continuous grace of Pujya Shri Shankaracharya Swamigal of Shri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam, right from his time of initiation into Vedic studies in the year 2006. With blessings of His Holiness, Sri Ganesha Sharma Dravid in addition to Rig Veda has also completed Yajurveda, Samaveda, Shadangas, Dashopanishat and has been pursuing Shastric studies.
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