I whanau a Mokshagundam Viswesvarayya i te 15 Mahuru 1861 i te kainga o Muddenahalli (kei roto i te rohe o Chikkaballapura, engari ko tetahi waahanga o te rohe o Kolar i te wa i whanau ai ia) i te kawanatanga rangatira o Mysore (inaianei Karnataka), India. Ko tana papa, a Mokshagundam Srinivasa Sastry, he kaiako kura me te tohunga rongonui o te Sanskrit, ko tana whaea, a Venkatalakshamma, he kaihanga whare. No Mokshagundam, he kainga o te rohe o Prakasam i Andhra Pradesh ona matua. Pātai: I whanau a Viswesvarayya?
15 o Hepetema 1861