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Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar (14 December 1918 – 20 August 2014) was an Indian teacher of yoga and author. He is the founder of the style of yoga as exercise , known as " Iyengar Yoga ", and was considered one of the foremost yoga gurus in the world.
Iyengar Yoga, named after and developed by B. K. S. Iyengar, and described in his bestselling [1] 1966 book Light on Yoga, is a form of yoga as exercise that has an emphasis on detail, precision and alignment in the performance of yoga postures .
S. Sitharama Iyengar was born on 26 August 1947 in Hemmige, a village along the side of Kaveri River situated about 14 km. from Tirumakudal Narsipur in Karnataka. S. S. Iyengar's father, S.N. Sundaraj Iyengar worked as a Divisional Accountant in the Mysore State Electricity Board, and later moved to Bangalore in 1949. S. S.
P. K. Iyengar - Indian nuclear physicist and former director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India T. R. Govindachari - natural product chemist known for studies on the synthesis of isoquinolines and phenanthridines and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology Awardee
Why the, entirely undiscussed, move away from B. K. S. Iyengar to, the rarely if ever used, Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar? He is referred to by his initials and even most of his pupils wouldn't be sure what they stood for. I've asked the editor in question to move it back. Mutt Lunker 07:33, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Ramanuja. The Iyengar community traces its philosophical origins to Nathamuni, the first Sri Vaishnava acharya, [6] who lived around 900 CE. He is traditionally believed to have collected the 4,000 works of Nammalvar and other alvars, [7] the poet-saints of Southern India who were intensely devoted to Vishnu on both an emotional and intellectual plane. [8]
When he was young, Mu Raghava Iyengar studied Tamil from Pandithurai Thevar. His cousin R. Raghava Iyengar was a Poet Laureate of the Sethu Samasthanam. His grand father, Sri Krishna Iyengar was the deputy chief minister under Sri Muthuramalinga Sethupathi II or Sri Bhaskara Sethupathi, Raja of Ramnad. Sri Krishna Iyengar was also known as ...
Srinivasa Iyengar was born on 17 April 1908. He joined the Department of English in the Andhra University which was started in 1947. [1] On 30 June 1966, he became the vice-chancellor of the Andhra University and continued till 29 November 1968. The Department of English, one of the oldest in the University, was carved out of the Department of ...