Establishment of Shree Ramachandrapura Math: During one of his piligrimages ,AdiShankara reached the shores of Gokarna ,The holy town on the west coast of India.After worshipping the presiding deity Shree Mahabaleshwara,tradition records that Shankaracharya along with his disciples reached the hills of Sathashringa to offer his prayers to Shree Varadesha.The place was an abode of peace and hormony,where wild animals like tiger and snake lived in amity with gentle creatures like cows and deer.Shankaracharya was wonderstruck by the seen of a tigrees showering motherly love on an orphaned deer at Ahoka,A grove where the great saint Varadamuni was performing penance.Varada muni welcomed Shankaracharya and handed over the sacred idols of Rama,Lakshmana ,Sita and Chanrdamouleshwara Lingas to Shankara so that they could be worshipped permanently by mahathmas.Varadamuni had received these Idols from his Guru Agasthyamuni.Shankaracharya established a math in his holy place,name with Raghuothama math which was to work for the spiritual wellbeing of the entire society and to under take the worship of the sacred idols.The Shree Math has stunningly beautiful ivory throne which is feast to one's eyes which was carved during the period of Shree Ramachandra Bharathi Swamiji.(the 34th pontiff)

Adi Shankara appointed his disciple Shree Vidyananda ,(who had taken deeksha from shree Sureshacharya) as the first pontiff.Thus commenced the glorious unbroken line of Peetadishas of Raghuthama math which is known as Shree Ramachandrapura math.The present pontiff Shree Ragaveshwra Bharathi Swamiji who was enthroned on 28th April,1999,is the 36th Guru in this Avichinna parampara.(The unbroken lineage). And the Shreemath has reached new heights of glory under the Golden reign of the present Shree Samstana.