An haifi Mokshagundam Viswesvarayya a ranar 15 ga Satumba 1861 a ƙauyen Muddenahalli (yanzu yana cikin Gundumar Chikkaballapura, amma wani ɓangare na gundumar Kolar a lokacin haihuwarsa) a cikin masarautar Mysore (yanzu Karnataka), Indiya. Mahaifinsa, Mokshagundam Srinivasa Sastry, malamin makaranta ne kuma sanannen masanin Sanskrit, yayin da mahaifiyarsa, Venkatalakshamma, ke zama mai gida. Iyayensa daga Mokshagundam, ƙauyen gundumar Prakasam ne a Andhra Pradesh. Tambaya: Menene sunan mahaifiyar?
Venkatalakshamma (mai suna a cikin harshen Hausa)