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SANKARA ACHARYA (c. 789-820)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 151 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAC-SAR
SANKARA ACHARYA (c. 789-820) ,
Hindu
  theologian, was
born
  about the
year
  789, probably at the
village
  of Kaladi in Malabar. He belonged to the Nambudri class of Brahmins. He wandered far and wide, and engaged in much philosophical and theological debate. He taught the existence of the Supreme God and founded the sect of the Smarta Brahmins. His
great
  achievement was the perfecting of the Mimansa or Vedanta
philosophy
 . So
great
  were his learning and piety that he was regarded as an incarnation of
Siva
 , and his
works
  (commentaries on the Vedanta Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads) exercised a permanent
influence
  on
Hindu
  thought. He died at Kedarnata in the Himalayas when only 32 years of age.
See Sri Sankaracharya, by C. N. Krishnasurami Aiyar and Pandit Sitanath Tattvabhushan (
Madras
 , 1902).


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