Kanchi Sri Balaperiyava jayanthi

Shankara Vijayendra Saraswathi Swamigal was born on 13 March 1969, he is the 70th Jagadguru of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam, Kanchipuram. He became the senior Pontiff of the Kanchi Mutt following the attainment of Vidhehamukthi of Jayendra Saraswati Swamigal, the 69th Pontiff, on 28 February 2018

Sri Shankara Vijayendra Saraswathi Swamigal was born in 1969 as Sankara Narayanan in Periyapalayam village near Arani in Tiruvallur. He attended a village school in Periyapalayam and studied the Vedas with his father, Sri Krishnamurthy Sastri, a Vedic scholar and teacher.

Balaperiyava joined the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham when he was 13 and was named 70th Peetadipati in 1983. This year Bala Periyava Jayanti is on 9th March 2021.