Vijayendra Saraswati Swamigal
Shankara Vijayendra Saraswathi is the 70th Jagadguru of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam, Kanchipuram. He became the senior Pontiff of the Kanchi Mutt following the death of Jayendra Saraswati, the 69th Pontiff, on 28 February 2018.Biography
Sri Shankara Vijayendra Saraswathi was born in 1969 as Sankara Narayanan 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 Peetadipati in 1983.
