[Advaita-l] Adi Shankara,s birth date.

Sriram Krishnamurthy asksriramjobs at gmail.com
Tue May 10 04:44:22 CDT 2011


Namaste,
The news of Adi Shankaracharya going back to his celestial abode Kailasha
reached his native people Kerala a few years late. Kollam Era was started
henceforth(824 AD).

Om Tat Sat,
Sriram

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Sunil Bhattacharjya <
sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear Vidyasankarji,
>
> With a quick look at the literature I find that the date of Sundara Pandya
> is linked to the date of Kumarila Bhatta, who was a contemporary of Lord
> Mahavir, who lived in the 6th century BCE and that explains how Adi
> Sankaracharya could know about the contribution of Sundara Pandya , who was
> a big scholar.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sunil KB.
>
> --- On Mon, 5/9/11, Sunil Bhattacharjya <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> From: Sunil Bhattacharjya <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Adi Shankara,s birth date.
> To: "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
> Date: Monday, May 9, 2011, 12:15 PM
>
> Dear Vidyasankarji,
>
> My intention is to express my surprise that  was  there really such an
> exact occurrence of the same verses in Adi Sankaracharya's
> Brahmasutrabhashya  as well as in  the some work of Sundara Pandya.  It will
> be nice if any of our learned group members can enlighten us on this,
> preferably by quoting the verses. Otherwise it is going to take time for me
> to go through the works of Sundara Pandya.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sunil KB
>
> From: Vidyasankar Sundaresan <svidyasankar at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Adi Shankara,s birth date.
> To: "Advaita List" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
> Date: Monday, May 9, 2011, 7:34 AM
>
>
> >
> > BTW does anybody have the verses which Sundara Pandya reportedly lifted
> from Sankara's Sutrabhashya or even if some may think the reverse to be the
> case.?
> >
>
> Sunilji,
>
> I would request more careful wording from you. It is well established that
> Sankaracharya
> quotes Sundarapandya and not the other way round. Usage of the term
> "reportedly lifted"
> carries unsavoury implications of plagiarism, which is absolutely not the
> case. Perhaps it
> is unintentional on your part, but that is all the more reason to be
> careful in word usage!
>
> There are quite a few thorough studies of whatever meager textual evidence
> we have for
> pre-Sankaran Vedanta. Please see the references mentioned with respect to
> this, in
> http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/avhp/biblio.html.
>
> Regards,
> Vidyasankar
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