married, moved to Kānchipuram, studied in an Advaita Vedānta monastery with Yādava Prakāsa as his guru [REF].
A number of traditional biographies of are known, some written in 12th century, but some written centuries later such as the 17th or 18th century, particularly after the split of the community into the and , where each community created its own version of s hagiography [REF].