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1 शंकराचार्य
ṡaṉkarâ̱cāryam. N. of various teachers andﾠ authors, (esp.) of a celebrated teacher of the Vedânta philosophy andﾠ reviver of Brāhmanism (he is thought to have lived between A.D. 788 andﾠ 820, but according to tradition he flourished 200 B.C., andﾠ was a native of Kerala orﾠ Malabar;
all accounts describe him as having led an erratic controversial life;
his leaming andﾠ sanctity were in such repute that he was held to have been an incarnation of Ṡiva, andﾠ to have worked various miracles;
he is said to have died at the age of thirty-two, andﾠ to have had four principal disciples, called Padma-pāda, Hastâmalaka, Sureṡvara orﾠ Mandana, andﾠ Troṭaka;
another of his disciples, Ānanda-giri, wrote a history of his controversial exploits, called Ṡaṃkara-vijaya q.v.;
tradition makes him the founder of one of the principal Ṡaiva sects, the Daṡa-nāmi-Daṇḍins orﾠ « Ten-named Mendicants» RTL. 87 ;
he is the reputed author of a large number of original works, such as the Ātma-bodha, Ānanda-lahari, Jñāna -bodhinī, Maṇi-ratna-mālā, etc.;
andﾠ commentaries on the Upanishads, andﾠ on the Brahma-mīmāṇsā orﾠ Vedānta-sūtra, Bhagavadgītā, andﾠ Mahā-bhārata, etc.) IW. 46 RTL. 53 ;
- carita n. - vijaya-ḍiṇḍima (cf. ṡaṉkara-digvijaya-ḍ-);
-ryâ̱vatāra-kathā f. - ryôtpatti f. N. of wks.
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2 शंकरदिग्विजय
ṡaṉkará-dig-vijayam. « Ṡaṃkara's victory over every quarter (of the world)»
N. of a fanciful account of the controversial exploits of Ṡaṃkarâcarya (q.v.) by Mādhavâcārya ( alsoﾠ called saṉkshepa-saṉkarajaya);
= ṡaṉkara-vijaya below ;
- ḍiṇḍima andﾠ - sāra m. N. of wks.
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