Lakshmi Kumara Thathachariar

Sri Lakshmi Kumara Thatha Desikan
Lakshmi Kumara Thathachariar
Sri Thathachariar(Centre) with His Consort (Extreme Right) and Swamy Vedantha Desikan (Extreme Left) as in Kanchipuram
Religion	Hinduism
Philosophy	Ramanuja's Vishistadvaita
Personal
Born	Aparyaaptaamrutan (Aaravamudan) 1572 A.D in the Tamil month of Karthikai in the Star of Anusham (03/Dec/1572) Kumbakonam, Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu, India
Died	1632 A.D (Day before Sri Rama Navami)(28/March/1632) Chandragiri
Guru	Sri Pancha Matha Bhanjana Thathachariar
Literary works	Srimath Hanumath Vimsathi, Nikama Parimalam, Lakshmi Niyudam, Panchagranthi Nipaharam, Satvika Brahmana Vidya Vilasa Parijata Apaharana, Sri Desika Prabandha Eedu
Honors	Thatha Desikan in Sanskrit, meaning "Holy Father – Guru"

Sri Lakshmi Kumara Thatha Desikan (Sanskrit: श्री लक्ष्मी कुमार ताता देसिकन, Tamil: ஸ்ரீ லக்ஷ்மி குமார தாத தேசிகன்) (1572–1632) was a prominent Vaishnava saint and Guru in the Hindu tradition in Vaishnavism, India. Sri Lakshmi Kumara Thatha Desikan was a devotee of Lord Narayana specially Lord Rama and the Vaishnava Guru /acharya Swamy Vedanta Desika. His birth name was Sri Abharyapthamrudhan. He has the title Kottikannikadhana Thirumalai Edur Immadi Royadurgam Sri Lakshmi Kumara Thatha Desikan. He was the Royal Preceptor "Raja Guru" and Chief Minister of Vijayanagar Empire. He was the "Manager-General" of the Divya Desam Temples including Sri Rangam, Kanchipuram, Tirumala, Melkote, Srivilliputtur, He is recorded as one of the greatest Aacharyas in the lineage of Sri Ramanuja's Vaishnavism.

Sri Thatha Desika was the adopted son of the famous Sri Pancha Madha Bandhana Thatha Desikan (his paternal uncle), a learned scholar and most revered aacharya of the Indian Philosophy and Sri Ramanujacharya's "Visishtadvaita".

Taking the roots from Sri Satamarshana maharishi in Krutha Yuga Satya Yuga, the first among the yugas, Sri Thatha Desikan hails from a very glorious acharya lineage with the hereditary relations from various Aacharyas of Sri Vaishnava philosophy like Sriman Natha Munigal (Nathamuni), Sri Alavandhar, Sri Thirumalai Nambigal (who is believed to be called by the Lord of Seven Hills, Tirumala Tirupati Sri Balaji as "Thathah:" the Sanskrit equivalent of the English Term "Holy Father"). Sri Thirumalai Nambigal being the maternal uncle of Sri Ramanujacharya (Ramanuja) and the one who corrected Sri Govinda Bhattar alias 'Embar' the brother of Sri Ramanuja and a venerated saint of Sri Vaishnava Sampradhaya. Sri Thirukurugai Piran Pillan being the son of Sri Thirumalai Nambigal was appointed as the 'Sri Ubhaya Vedhanta Sri Bhashya Simhasanathipathi' - literally meaning the 'Divine Incharge' of the 'Sri Bhashya' (Sri Bhasya) the treatise to Sri Veda Vyasa's "Brahma Sutras" written by Sri Ramanujacharya and the "Nalayira Dhivya Prabandham" (especially 'Thiruvaimozhi' of Sri Nammalvar) the collection of 4000 songs sung by Tamil Saints known as Alwars.