[1] Govindacharya was born on 3 August 1936, in the Bannanje neighborhood of Udupi to Tulu speaking Shivalli Madhva Brahmin parents, in present-day southern Indian state of Karnataka.

He wrote new Vyakarana Sutras, extending the work of Panini, and also did vyakhyana for the words written before Pāṇini.

Best known for his pravachanas (discourses), Govindacharya's talks are widely appreciated among Tuluvas and Kannadigas worldwide, earning him widespread recognition.

His literary achievements also include his translation and commentaries of the complete texts of Shri Madhwacharya.

Mukund (a disciple of Sri Bannanje) along with his colleague Dr. Roger Easton from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and Dr. Keith Knox of the Boeing Corporation in Hawaii, undertook the imaging and preserving of the original Sarvamoola Granthas authored by Madhvacharya.

Bannanje regarded this task as a project of enormous importance and was using the images in his studies of the manuscript.

He wrote script in Sanskrit for G V Iyer's movies Bhagavadgeeta, Adi Shankaracharya, Shri Madhwacharya, and Sri Ramanujacharya.

[citation needed] Apart from the Vedic texts, Shri Bannanje also translated several other Sanskrit works into Kannada.