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search  Naraharitirtha (1324-1333 CE).[1] was a disciple of 13th
Century Indian saint Madhvacharya and is considered the founder
of the Haridasa (a Hindu Vaishnava) movement n India. He was not
only a noted saint but also a pontiff to the ruling Vijayanagara
royal as evidenced by some inscriptions. The pre-pontification
name of Naraharitirtha was Shyama Sastry.[2]  Early years[edit]
No clear picture appears regarding his early years except that
he was the minister of the King of Kalinga (modern Orissa, a
state of Eastern India) described in a work called
Narahariyatistotra which says he was a minister for twelve
years. Hence its assumed that he was a native of either Andhra
Pradesh or Orissa. Inscriptions from the Srikurmam and
Simhacalam temples also attest to his ministry in Kalinga.
Though presumably not of Kannada origin, many of his works were
in that language, although only three compositions in Kannada
have been recovered. They are, yanthu m