Sri Sankarâchârya
(Sk.)
The great religious reformer of India, and teacher of the Vedânta philosophy — the greatest of all such teachers, regarded by the Adwaitas (Non‐dualists) as an incarnation of Siva and a worker of miracles. He established many mathams (monasteries), and founded the most learned sect among Brahmans, called the Smârtava. The legends about him are as numerous as his philosophical writings. At the age of thirty‐two he went to Kashmir, and reaching Kedâranâth in the Himalayas, entered a cave alone, whence he never returned. His followers claim that he did not die, but only retired from the world. (TG).
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