Krishnacharya Tamanacharya Pandurangi (1 February 1918 - 22 April 2017), also known by the pen name Viswamangala, was an Indian Sanskrit scholar and a notable Indologist.

Pandurangi was unique among contemporary Sanskrit scholars, being simultaneously at home among both traditional and modern systems of education.

[1] Krishnacharya was born on 1 February 1918 in a family of Sanskrit scholars to Tamanacharya Pandurangi and Lakshmi Bai in Dharwad, Karnataka.

In 1940, at the age of 22, he joined the Oriental department of Annamalai University and Maharaja's College, Mysore, where he studied Purva Mimamsa under such reputed scholars as Dr. B. N. K. Sharma.

He was a Senior Fellow of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research and served as President of the Mythic Society, Bangalore for twelve years.

[3][4][5] Pandurangi visited Germany, England, Austria and the United States, delivering lectures on Purva Mimamsa and Vedanta.