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SANKARA'S LIFE SankarAcArya ashThottaram Transliteration Key The following is based upon accounts known through oral tradition and texts like the mAdhavIya Sankara vijayam. There exists some controversy about Sankara's date, but most traditions are quite unanimous about other details. Birth and childhood: Sankara was born to the nambUdiri brAhmaNa couple, Sivaguru and AryAmbA, in a little ...

Self-Knowledge: A short outline, based on Shankara's treatise, for advanced seekers.

SHANKARA 788 - 820 Indian Reformer Shankara, philosopher and theologian, was born in Kerala in southern India. He became a Hindu ascetic and exponent of the Advaita Vedanta school of philosophy. Shankara reformed Hinduism with a monistic interpretation of the Vedanta, which ascribed all reality to a single unitary source, which he identified as Brahma . He declared all plurality and ...