[Advaita-l] Doubt on how Bhagavad padha 'identified' himself

V Subrahmanian v.subrahmanian at gmail.com
Mon Nov 18 05:23:33 EST 2019


Thank you for the clarification.

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 3:33 PM H S Chandramouli <hschandramouli at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste.
>
> Birth place mentioned as Kerala.
>
> Regards
>
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 3:31 PM V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the information. Has the Madhva author given the place of
>> birth of Shankara? If so, what?
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 3:28 PM H S Chandramouli <
>> hschandramouli at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Namaste.
>>>
>>> Sri SSS has covered the topic in his work Sri Shankara Bhagavatpada SAra
>>> Sarvasva. According to that, while most of the Shankara Vijaya texts
>>> mention Kerala as the birth place of Sri Bhagavatpada, one by Sri
>>> Anantandagiri, who claims to be a direct disciple of Sri Bhagavatpada,
>>> mentions Chidambaram as the birth place.
>>>
>>> There is also a mention in two texts Madhva Vijaya and Mani Manjari by a
>>> Madhwa scholar Sri Narayana Pandita about the birth of Sri Bhagavatpada.
>>> Needless to say it is in bad taste.
>>>
>>> As I am not particularly interested in this type of subjects, I am not
>>> going into the details. I am responding since you specifically asked for
>>> the information. For details the text itself may please be referred.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>


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