1. Padmanabha Tirtha
2. Nrhari (Narahari) Tirtha
3. Madhava Tirtha
4. Aksobhya Tirtha
5. Jaya Tirtha
6. Vidyadhiraja (Vidyanidhi) Tirtha
7. Rajendra Tirtha
8. Jayadharma (Vijayadhvaj) Tirtha
9. Brahmanya Tirtha
10. Vyasa Tirtha
11. Laxmipati Tirtha
Sripad Padmanabha Tirtha was a native of Uttara-Karnataka which in those
days stretched to the area known as Andhra Pradesh. This is confirmed by
Hrsikesa Tirtha in his book Sampradaya Paddhati. This is also mentioned
in Guru-acarya is a hagiological work of unknown authorship, in sanskrit
verse, dealing with the lives of the pontiffs of the Uttaradi mutt, up
to Satyanidhi Tirtha (1648). The exact time of Padmanabha Tirtha's appearance
is not available to my knowledge, but in Sri Chaitanya Charitamrta purport
(Madhya-lil 9:245.) Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad includes a
section from the Bombay Gazzette that gives a date as being 1120. There
is no mention of the dating system that is being used specifically for
that date but, many of the other references are of Sakabja Era to which
we need to add 79 years to get Chritian Era (A.D.) making the date 1199
A.D.
Both of the afore-mentioned state however, that Padmanabha Tirtha
came from Uttara-Karnataka of the Telegu speaking people around the area
where the Godavari River flows. His previous name in his 'purva-ashram'
was Sobhana Bhatta, his initiationn and subsequent change of name came
upon meeting Madhwa when Madhwa returned to Udupi from his second northern
tour. He (Sobhana Bhatta) was already a renowned and distinguished scholar
of the day, but his proficiency in fourteen branches of learning were silenced
in fourteen seconds by Acarya Madhwa in 1265 AD. In a very short time he
became one of the most trusted disciples of Madhwa. Madhwa always praised
him, being the senior-most disciple among those outside the Tulu area,
and his learning, preaching capacity and seniority enabled Madhwa to make
him the first to sit on the 'Pitha' after Madhwa's disappearance pastime.
Sripad Padmanabha Tirtha left this world at Navavrindavanas, near Hampi,
on the sacred Tungabhadra River in 1324 AD. His 'samadhi' tomb remains
there to this day. (Again more will be said in Madhwa's life story.)