Śṛṅgeri (Sringeri)

Śṛṅgeri (Sringeri) is a temple town on the Tuṅgabhadrā (Tunga) River in the Chikkamagaluru district of Karnataka, south-west India. It is traditionally held to be the site of the first of the maṭhas founded by Ādi Śaṅkara, and was later led by Vidyāraṇya, the 14th-century Advaita scholar and Sringeri pontiff.