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Ādi Shankara
आदिशङ्कराचार्यः sa आदि शंकराचार्य hi ஆதி சங்கரர் ta
An Indian philosopher and theologian who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta and revitalized Sanskrit scholasticism.
- Dated c. 788 CE – c. 820 CE
- Also called Adi Sankarachaarya, Sankaracarya, Aryamba antharjanam
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An Indian philosopher and theologian who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta and revitalized Sanskrit scholasticism.Wikidata record description. Read Adi Shankara in the Wikipedia reader.
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As a third party recorded it, often for one period of a life.
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Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
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