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Vemana
Vemana (వేమన) was a Telugu poet and ascetic, probably of the 17th century, whose short moral verses in colloquial speech are still quoted as proverbs in Telugu-speaking India.
Venkatamakhin
Venkatamakhin (வேங்கடமாகின்), also called Venkateshvara, was a South Indian musician and minister at the Thanjavur court who formulated the 72-mela system underlying modern Carnatic music theory.
Vidyaranya
Vidyaranya (विद्यारण्य), also called Madhava Vidyaranya, was a 14th-century Advaita Vedanta ascetic, twelfth Jagadguru of Sringeri, and spiritual preceptor behind the founding of the Vijayanagara Empire.
Vijayanagara temple administration
Vijayanagara temple administration (देवस्थान पद्धति) was the system by which the Vijayanagara empire, founded in 1336, managed South Indian temples through royal grants and temple officers.
Vijayendra Tirtha
Vijayendra Tirtha (ವಿಜಯೀಂದ್ರ ತೀರ್ಥ), also written Vijayindra Tirtha, was a Dvaita Vedanta pontiff who headed the Kumbakonam matha in the sixteenth century and defeated the scholar Appayya Dikshita in debate.
Vyasatirtha
Vyasatirtha (ವ್ಯಾಸತೀರ್ಥ), also called Vyasaraja, was a Madhva (Dvaita Vedanta) pontiff and polemicist, 1460 to 1539, who served the Vijayanagara Empire as guru to Krishnadevaraya and guided Purandara Dasa.