[1] Sri Shankara Vijayendra Saraswathi was born in 1969 as Sankara Narayanan Sastri[2] in Periyapalayam village near Arani in Tiruvallur.

[3] He attended a village school in Periyapalayam and studied the Vedas with his father, Sri Krishnamurthy Sastri, a Vedic scholar and teacher.

[6][7] Vijayendra Saraswati chose to sit through the Tamil Thai Vazhthu even as he reportedly stood for the national anthem at during the release of a Tamil-Sanskrit dictionary compiled by the late father of Bharatiya Janata Party leader H. Raja in January 2018.

[10] The Madras high court on March directed the police to register an FIR after a complaint filed by Thanthai Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam.

[11][12] Justice G. R. Swaminathan quashed an FIR in December 2021 filed by Naam Tamilar Katchi saying the Tamil Thai Vazhthu is only a prayer song and not a national anthem and hence, there is no need for every one to remain in standing posture when it is rendered.