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Shringeri Sri Sharadamba temple
Name:	Shringeri Sri Sharadamba temple
Primary deity:	Sharada (Saraswati)
Architecture:	South Indian, Kovil
Location:	Shringeri

Sri Sharadamba temple is a famous Hindu dedicated to goddess Saraswati located in the holy town of Shringeri in Karnataka, India

The Sharadamba Temple at Shringeri (Shringa giri in Sanskritis an 8th Century temple, founded by Sri Adi Shankaracharya.It housed a sandalwood idol of Shardamba in a standing posture, which was installed by Adi Shankarachaya himself until the Vijayanagara rulers and Sri Vidyaranya(12th Jagadguru) installed a seated gold idol of Sri Shardamba in the 14th century.

[edit] Shringeri Sharada Suprabhatha

The Shringeri Sharada Suprabhatha was adopted by the Shringeri matha in the late 1970's by his holiness Jagadguru Sri Abhinava Vidyatirtha swamiji. The very famous Sree Sharada Suprabhata Stotram was composed by Veda Brahma. Turuvekere Subrahmanya Vishweshwara Dikshith also known as Sri. T. S. Vishweshwara Dikshith for the divine Shringeri Sharada maata (God Mother).

Veda. Brahma. T. S. Vishweshwara Dikshith was born in Turuvekere, a small town in Tumkur district and was the Sanskrit professor in Maharaja College in the Royal Kingdom of Mysore and resided at Mysore. He was also the Aasthana Vidwan of Alankaara Shasthra of King Jayachamaraja Wodeyar Bahadur. Sri. T. S. Vishweshwara Dikshith was a learned Sanskrit scholar in several Vedas (Yajur Veda in particular) and specialised in Ghana Krama - which is the essense of the Vedas. He also composed the Sree Srikanteshwara Suprabhata and Sree Chandramoulishwara Suprabhata of Lord. Srikanteshwara of Nanjangud, and Sri Chandramoulishwara temple in V. V. Mohalla, Mysore respectively. He was a Ghana Pati and had mastered several Shastras such as Alankara Shastra, Jyothishya Shastra (Astrology), Tarka, and Vyakarana (Literature) to name a few. He received several awards and accolodates from the Maharaja of Mysore, and their holiness the pointiffs' of Sringeri Sharada Peetham and Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam respectively for his contributions made to Sanskrit Literature.

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