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The Calamur Viravalli are a dynasty of Vadadesa Vadama Brahmins from North Arcot, known for their erudition, brilliance, and tradition of legal mastery, and dating to patriarch C. V. Runganada Sastri, an agnate of the venerable Appayya Dikshita, and thus kinsman of Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita and Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita.

Members of the family traditionally bore the initials C.V., sometimes C. prefixed to their personal names, with the 'C' corresponding to their ancient seat of Kalambur in North Arcot. Agnates used Sastri or Sastriar as caste names where appropriate, and sometimes the more generic 'Iyer' or more precise 'Dikshita'.

Originally of minimal means, their skills as jurists rapidly established them as one of the wealthiest professional dynasties in the Madras Presidency.Sundararajan, S. (2002). Sir C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar, a Biography. India: Allied Publishers.[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Asian%20Legal%20Revivals/mNc-76qXuyYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=kumaraswami+sastri&pg=PA71&printsec=frontcover Dezalay Y. & Garth B. G. (2010). Asian legal revivals : lawyers in the shadow of empire. University of Chicago Press. Retrieved November 13 2023 from https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=616019.]


 * C.V. Sundara Sastri - premier litigator before the High Court, foster-father and tutor to H.H. Panaganti Ramarayaningar, Raja of Panigal and Chief Minister of Madras Presidency
 * H.H. Panaganti Ramarayaningar, Raja of Panigal and Chief Minister of Madras Presidency
 * Sir P. Anandacharlu
 * Diwan Bahadur Sir C. V. Kumaraswami Sastri - Judge of the High Court, member of the Rowlatt Committee, premier Sanskrit scholar
 * Diwan Bahadur C.V. Viswanatha Sastri - Judge of the High Court
 * C. Chandrasekhara Sastri - Principal of Maharaja's College, Vizianagaram
 * Veṅkatarāmaṇ Śāstrī, later Shankaracharya Bharati Krishna Tirtha Maharaj - Shankaracharya and Pontiff of Dwaraka Math, and then supreme pontiff of Govardhana Math at PuriKandasamy W. B. V. & Smarandache F. (2006). Vedic mathematics : vedic or mathematics: a fuzzy and neutrosophic analysis. Automaton.
 * Sachivottama Diwan Bahadur Sir C. P. Ramaswamy Iyer
 * C. R. Pattabhiraman Iyer - Union Minister for Development and Planning; Minister for Information and Broadcasting; Minister for Law
 * C. V. Nagaraja Sastri - Registrar for Trademarks
 * C. Aryama Sundaram
 * C. R. Ranganathan - Joint Foreign Secretary; Ambassador to USSR during Perestroika; Ambassador to China; Ambassador to France
 * M.R. Srinivasan - Chairman of the Indian Atomic Commission; Secretary of Atomic Energy
 * C. V. Karthikeyan - Judge of the High Court at Madrashttps://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/cvkj.html
 * Vicitracitta Professor C. Sivaramamurti
 * Calamur Mahadevan
 * C. Sundara Sastri - Sanskrit scholar, author of Sanskrit translation of the Ramayana
 * Diwan Bahadur V. N. Viswanatha Rao - Finance Secretary to the Madras Presidency
 * V.N. Srinivasa Rao

By Marriage

 * V.K. Krishna Menon
 * P. N. Pattabhirama Sastri
 * C. R. Pattabhirama Iyer - judge
 * Pennathur Subramania Iyer
 * Lalan Thampuran, Maharaja Rama Varma XIX of Cochin

More distant blood ties

 * Nilakantha Dikshita
 * Bhattoji Dikshita
 * Venki Ramakrishnan
 * Swami Sivananda

Dewan Bahadur Calamur Viravalli Viswanatha Sastri was an Indian jurist and statesman who served as a justice of the High Court of the Madras Presidency, following his elder brother Dewan Bahadur Sir C. V. Kumaraswami Sastri.

Born into the Calamur Viravalli lineage of Vadadeśa Vadama Tamil Iyer Brahmins, he was grandson to polyglot and judge C. V. Runganada Sastri, son to litigator C. V. Sundara Sastri, brother-in-law to Sir C.P. Ramaswami Iyer, uncle to Minister of Law C. R. Pattabhiraman, cousin to Bharati Krishna Tirtha, C. Aryama Sundaram, and C. Sivaramamurti. His great-grandson, fellow Madras High Court justice C. V. Karthikeyan, serves on that court today, marking six generations of Calamur Viravalli presence in the judiciary.