Early Life
Sacchidananda was born Narasimha in the 1607 A.D. in the village of Srikanteswarapuram (Sanskrit: श्रीकण्ठ॓श्वरपुरम्) now known as Kunnuvarankottai (Kunnuvarankottai Kasi Visalakshi-Viswanathar temple#Kunnuvarankottai-Tamil: குன்னுவாரங்கோட்டை) or Kannapatti (Tamil: கண்ணாபட்டி) near Batlagundu in the southern part of India. This village was in Madurai District and is presently located in the Dindigul district (from 1985 onwards) of Tamil Nadu.
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