Adi Shankaracharya

Shankaracharya Jayanti

When:
May 9, 2019 all-day
2019-05-09T00:00:00+05:30
2019-05-10T00:00:00+05:30

Adi Shankaracharya Jayanti is observed as birth anniversary of Indian Guru and philosopher Adi Shankara. Adi Shankara was born in Kalady which is situated in Kerala during 788 C.E. and he was disappeared at young age of 32 in year 820 C.E.

Adi Shankaracharya Jayanti is observed on Panchami Tithi during Shukla Paksha of Vaishakha month and currently falls between April and May. Shankaracharya consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanata (अद्वैत वेदान्त) and revived it at a time when Hindu culture was on decline.

Several different dates have been proposed for Shankara:

  • Based on records of the heads of the Shankara’s cardinal institutions Maṭhas at Dvaraka Pitha, the Govardhana matha and Badri and the Kanchi Peetham, the dating of Adi Shankara is 509–477 BCE.
  • The commentator Anandagiri believed he was born at Chidambaram in 44 BCE and died in 12 BCE.
  • Telang placed him in 6th century CE. Sir R. G. Bhandarkar believed he was born in 680 CE.
  • The early 20th scholars like Max Müller, Macdonnel, Pathok, Deussen and Radhakrishna and others have proposed the date as 788–820 CE. The date 788–820 is also among those considered acceptable by Swami Tapasyananda, though he raises a number of questions.
  • Late 20th century scholarship has questioned the 788-820 CE dates, placing Adi Shankara’s life of 32 years in the first half of the 8th century i.e. sometime between 700-750 CE.
  • Venkiteswara not only places Shankara later than most, but also had the opinion that it would not have been possible for him to have achieved all the works apportioned to him, and has him live ninety two years between 805–897 CE but oviously no can see beyond their own frames. Our imaginations are limited to our experience but the world is more wide than the same.

Adi Shankara, along with Madhava and Ramanuja, was instrumental in the revival of Hinduism. These three teachers formed the doctrines that are followed by their respective sects even today. They have been the most important figures in the recent history of Hindu philosophy.

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