Sri Mahadevendra Saraswathi V

Sri Mahadevendra Saraswathi V was the 67th Shankaracharya of the Kanchi matha. He was born Lakshmi Narasimha to Narasimha Sastri and Lakshmi. He was given the title Mahadevendra Saraswathi and made the Shankaracharya in 1907. He occupied the post for a brief period of seven days and died in 1907.

He was succeeded by his nephew, Swaminathan, a boy of thirteen, who became the sixty-eighth Shankaracharya with the title Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi VIII.