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    Kulasekhara

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    KING KULASEKHARA

    During the period from before Sankara, Vaisnavism


    was making headway in the south under the active
    patronage of King Kulasekhara of Kerala, who was the
    author of the immortal Vaisnava poem Mukunda-mala-
    stotra.
    He invited Vaisnava scholars from other provinces to
    check the advance of Buddhism and other non-
    devotional sects. Kulasekhara built the Kulasekhara
    temple in the suburb of Krangamore, another at
    Kulasekharapuram and Vaisnavite Matha at
    Kumbakonam.
    Prabhakara is said to have been employed by
    Kulasekhara to fight Buddhism. Prabhakara preceded
    Sankara's disciple Padmapad, and during the lifetime of
    Sankara, it was not Kulasekhara but Raja Raj and Raja
    Sekhara who were the kings.
    Kulasekhara tells us in his Mukunda-mala-stotra that he
    was the king; so it appears that Kulasekhara was
    earlier than Sankara. This Kulasekhara, author of the
    Mukunda-mala-stotra, seems to be the same as the
    famous Alvar Kulasekhara who wrote the Vaisnava
    devotional poems in Tamil which have been included in
    the Nalayira Prabandham.
    Some scholars distinguish the Sanskrit author
    Kulasekhara and from the Tamil author of the same
    name.

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