Royal Patron Sriman Bhaskara Sethupathi

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Namaskaram

Rajah Bhaskara Sethupati of Ramanathapuram(1868-1903) belongs to the Royal House of Ramnad. 

The contribution of the Sethupathis to art & culture and to Tamil has now been almost forgotten.

He was so greatly enamored of Swami Vivekananda & his teachings. He funded the Swami’s historic trip to the Parliament of Religions at Chicago. Though Sethupathi was the original invitee to the Conference, he chose instead to send Swami Vivekananda and the rest is history. 

Swami Vivekananda too held Sethupathi in high esteem and called him a ‘Rajarishi’. And when the Svami returned back from Chicago and set foot at Pamban in Ramesvaram on Jan 26th, 1897, he was given a tumultuous welcome and to commomerate the same Bhaskara Sethupati constructed a 40ft high monument inscribed with the words ‘Satyameva Jayate’, which went on to become the motif of the Indian State some 50 years later!

Kindly see the below link to read detailed account of Sriman Bhaskara Sethupathi.

http://guruguha.org/wp/?p=443

Pranams

Anand Vasudevan