[Advaita-l] Shankaracharya about the disposal of a Sannyasin's body on death

V Subrahmanian v.subrahmanian at gmail.com
Sun Mar 17 03:22:22 EDT 2024


  In the Brihadaranyaka Bhashya, Bhagavatpada says:

 ‘भस्मान्तं शरीरम्’ (ई. उ. १७)
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इति
; न हि पारिव्राज्यपक्षे भस्मान्तता शरीरस्य स्यात् ।

For a Sannyasin the end (of the bodily life) is not cremation (body being
burnt).

Does this mean that even during Shankaracharya's times the practice of not
cremating the body of a Sannyasin but interring it in a
samadhi/adhishthanam was in vogue?

regards
subbu


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