Vijayendra Saraswati Swamigal
Jagadguru Sri Shankara Vijayendra Saraswathi Swamigal (born 13 March 1969) is the 70th Jagadguru Peethadipathi of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, Kanchipuram. He became the senior Pontiff of the Kanchi Mutt following the attainment of Vidhehamukthi of Jayendra Saraswati, the 69th Pontiff, on 28 February 2018. Biography Sri Shankara Vijayendra Saraswathi was born in 1969 as Sankara Narayanan Sastri in Periyapalayam village near Arani in Tiruvallur. He attended a village school in Periyapalayam and studied the Vedas with his father, Sri Krishnamurthy Sastri, a Vedic scholar and teacher. He joined the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham when he was 13 and was named 70th Peethadhipati in 1983. Sri Shankara Vijayendra Sarasvati Swamigal has toured many parts of the country. He has visited places like Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Assam, Orissa, West Bengal, and all other parts of southern India. He also visited Nepal in the year 1998 with His Guru Sri Jayendra Saraswati Swamigal. Arrest and Acquittal In 2004, the junior Sri Vijayendra Saraswathi Mahaswamigal was arrested in connection with the Sankararaman murder case on Diwali day along with the senior Jayendra Saraswathi pontiff. The court said that the complainant failed to support the prosecution and he was given bail. The trial went on till