Madhvacarya

Madhvacarya was born in 1239 at Pajakaksetra. He founded the Dwaita system of philosophy and preached it vigorously across the country. Madhvacarya was a Vaishnava, a devotee of Vishnu. The basic tenet of his philosophy is that Vishnu is supreme, omniscient, and infinite. He taught that there is the existence of the Supreme Lord, the individual souls, and the material world, and that each is distinct from the other. He also taught that the individual souls are superior to matter yet still inferior to God, being his servants.
Madhvacarya possessed an unusually strong body and extraordinary intellect.

He traveled to almost every sacred place of pilgrimage, where he defeated scholars of rival schools and won them over to his faith. He gave sannyas to eight of his disciples, who then became the first heads of the Maths located on Car Street udupi . He disappeared from this world while preaching to his disciples in the Sri Ananthasana Temple.