[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c8.864 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.864 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.864 - **Language:** English ### [c8.864](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.864) Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭatiri had a brother named Mātrdatta. He was younger to Nārāyaṇa and his work was to take down the verses which Nārāyaṇa composed. Meppattūr (Nārāyaṇa is more well-known under the name of his illam) studied under different preceptors. His father taught him Mīmāṃsā and such other subjects. He studied Veda under Mādhavācārya and Tarka under Dāmodarācārya. Acyuta Piṣāroṭi taught him Vyākaraṇa. The poet became a rheumatic patient in his old age and he stayed in the Guruvāyūr temple worshipping the deity there. His famous work Nārāyaṇīyam was written sitting in the temple of Guruvāyūr and the maṇḍapa (raised dais) where he sat and wrote is even now preserved for pilgrims to see. He took hundred days to write the Nārāyaṇīyam. - [Previous: c8.863](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.863) - [Next: c8.865](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.865) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.864](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.864) · Pramāṇa