Edaneeru Mutt ( ml, ) is a Hindu monastic institution renowned as a seat of art and learning located in

Edneer Edaneeru is a hamlet in the Chengala village of Kasaragod district, Kerala State of India. Post Office Edaneeru has a branch post office and pin code is 671541. Schools HHSIBSHSS (His Holiness Sri ishwarananda Bharathi Swamiji's Higher Secon ...

Kasaragod district Kasaragod ( and Malayalam language, Malayalam: , English language, English: ''Kassergode'', Tulu language, Tulu: ''Kasrod'', Arabic language, Arabic: ''Harkwillia'') is one of the 14 List of districts of Kerala, districts in the southern Indi ...

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. It traces its parampara to Sri Thotakacharya, one of the first four disciples of Adi

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, and it follows the

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Bhagawatha tradition and the

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school of

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. From 1961 to 2020, the institution was headed by Kesavananda Bharati, whose full honorific title as head of the mutt was ''Srimad Jagadguru Sri Sri Sankaracharya Thotakacharya Kesavananda Bharati Sripadangalavaru''. The head of the mutt is also known as Edaneeru Swamiji or Pontiff of Edaneeru. Edaneeru Mutt was involved in ''

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'', where the

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developed the

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in striking down an attempt by the

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Kesavananda Bharati (on the right) in Shri Pashupatinath Temple in

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in the month of October 2009 with Indian Activist Dr.

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(on the left). File:Shri Keshvananda Bharathi Swamiji's procession.jpg, Procession of Edneer Swamiji by his disciples in

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