Sri Jayadhwaja Tirtharu

As the 9th pontiff, Sri Jayadhvaja Teertha boldly expanded his predecessor's revolutionary work into Northern India, engaging in profound polemical debates and converting major scholars like Sri Vishnu Puri to the Madhwa faith. After firmly establishing the Vaishnava order, he ordained Sri Purushottama Teertha and sent him to the South, laying the spiritual groundwork for the Vijayanagara Empire. His holy Brindavana is located at Yeragola.