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| honorific-prefix = U.Ve.<br />
| name = Kundalam Vidwan Rangachariar<br />
| title = Vidwan<br />
| religion = [[Hindu]]<br />
| image = Kundalam_Rangachariar.JPG<br />
| caption = Kundalam Rangachariar (circa 1960)<br />
| birth_name = Rangachari<br />
| birth_date = 1893<br />
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| parents = Srirangachari<br />
| children = 7<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1976|2|21|1893|5|20|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Srirangam]]<br />
| resting_place = [[Srirangam]]<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
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[[File:Kundalam Vidwan Rangachari.jpg|thumb|Kundalam Vidwan Rangachari in his later years (circa 1976)]]<br />
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'''Kundalam Vidwan Rangachariar''' (1893–1976) was a [[Sanskrit]] scholar. He lived in [[Srirangam]] and was involved in the ''Vedaparayanam'' and the daily puja at the [[Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple (Srirangam)|Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple]]. He was known for his knowledge of Vedanta and was a regular speaker on the subject. He was actively associated with the growth of Sri Annaswamy Iyengar Vidwat Sadhas, Mannargudi.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/fr/2005/03/25/stories/2005032500180300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105075746/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2005/03/25/stories/2005032500180300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 November 2012|title=Diamond Jubilee celebrations |date=25 March 2005|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=2009-08-20}}</ref> He was a regular invitee and speaker in the summer school lectures at Tirupati (TTD). Kundalam Rangachariar was well known to [[Chandrashekarendra Saraswati|Kanchi Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swamigal (Mahaswamigal)]]. Besides being a Sanskrit scholar, he was an astrologer.<br />
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He was married to Rukmini. They lived at 142, North Chitra Street, Srirangam. They had the following children:<br />
Srinivasaragavan, Srirangachari, Ranganayaki, Thirumalai, Satagopan, Sundararajan and Sampathkumaran.<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
{{Quote|He was a great philanthropist. Once, I remember, he donated a silk cloth with golden linings to a poor man shivering in cold on the roadside on one of his birthdays. The cloth happened to be his unique and the costliest present in the family|Sampathkumaran}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131024090101/http://samastbrahmsamaj.org/historyof_brahmins.php?id=0 Sanskrit scholar Kundalam Rangachariar]<br />
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=42ZjAAAAMAAJ&q=Kundalam+Rangachariar&dq=Kundalam+Rangachariar&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oQqFUZedEsTyrQeJhIBQ&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAg Report of the Sanskrit Commission 1956-1957]<br />
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=LljVAAAAMAAJ&q=Kundalam+Rangachariar&dq=Kundalam+Rangachariar&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oQqFUZedEsTyrQeJhIBQ&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBQ Parliamentary Debates: Official Report. Rajya Sabha, Volume 50, Part 1]<br />
*Sanskrit in India, Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, pg. 466<br />
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