Sankararaman Anantakrishnasharma worked with the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham -- arguably, South India's most respected Hindu Math -- for 60 years.

He was among the four men who walked with the late Kanchi Shankaracharya Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati to Kashi from Kanchipuram.

Anantakrishnasharma served Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati all his life. The Shankaracharya provided Anantakrishnasharma a one room tenement in the temple town.

Anantakrishnasharma built into a three room house, of which one is a prayer room.

When Anantakrishnasharma died, his only child Sankararaman took his place to serve the Kanchi Shankaracharya. Read more