ṣaṃkarācārya | षंकराचार्य | SaMkarAcArya
ṣaṃkarācārya | षंकराचार्य | See below.
ṣaṃkarācārya | षंकराचार्य | m. N. of various teachers and authors, (esp.) of a celebrated teacher of the Vedānta philosophy and reviver of Brāhmanism (he is thought to have lived between A.D. 788 and 820, but according to tradition he flourished 200 B.C., and was a native of Kerala or Malabar; all accounts describe him as having led an erratic controversial life; his learning and sanctity were in such repute that he was held to have been an incarnation of Śiva, and to have worked various miracles; he is said to have died at the age of thirty-two, and to have had four principal disciples, called Padma-pāda, Hastāmalaka, Sureśvara or Mandana, and Troṭaka; another of his disciples, Ānanda-giri, wrote a history of his controversial exploits, called Śaṃkara-vijaya q.v.; tradition makes him the founder of one of the principal Śaiva sects, the Daśa-nāmi-Daṇḍins or ‘Ten-named Mendicants’, RTL. 87; he is the reputed author of a large number of original works, such as the Ātmabodha, Ānanda-laharī, Jñāna-bodhinī, Maṇi-ratna-mālā, &c.; and commentaries on the Upaniṣads, and on the Brahma-mīmāṃsā or Vedānta-sūtra, Bhagavadgītā, and Mahā-bhārata, &c.), IW. 46; RTL. 53
ṣaṃkarācārya | षंकराचार्य | m. N. of various teachers and authors, (esp.) of a celebrated teacher of the Vedānta philosophy and reviver of Brāhmanism (he is thought to have lived between A.D. 788 and 820, but according to tradition he flourished 200 B.C., and was a native of Kerala or Malabar; all accounts describe him as having led an erratic controversial life; his learning and sanctity were in such repute that he was held to have been an incarnation of Śiva, and to have worked various miracles; he is said to have died at the age of thirty-two, and to have had four principal disciples, called Padma-pāda, Hastāmalaka, Sureśvara or Mandana, and Troṭaka; another of his disciples, Ānanda-giri, wrote a history of his controversial exploits, called Śaṃkara-vijaya q.v.; tradition makes him the founder of one of the principal Śaiva sects, the Daśa-nāmi-Daṇḍins or ‘Ten-named Mendicants’, RTL. 87; he is the reputed author of a large number of original works, such as the Ātmabodha, Ānanda-laharī, Jñāna-bodhinī, Maṇi-ratna-mālā, &c.; and commentaries on the Upaniṣads, and on the Brahma-mīmāṃsā or Vedānta-sūtra, Bhagavadgītā, and Mahā-bhārata, &c.), IW. 46; RTL. 53