[Advaita-l] Age/History of Sankara

[B Shridhar]

On 10/9/06, venkata subramanian <venkat_advaita at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >From an old tamil dictionary work  i find even Kumbakonam Math mentioned
> in this list of branches of Sringeri.


How can the kanchi mutt with a lineage of 70 guru parampara be a branch of
the sringeri mutt with only 36 acharyas.
Cant you use your common sense before you give such references ???

Yours Truly
B. Shridhar

Vidyasankar Sundaresan <svidyasankar at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> >Below is an historical question (no other intention except to know
> >more of the history):
> >Kudali shankara mutt was the center of Sri Ramakrishnans email
> >sometime ago. I wonder if the above excerpt refers to the same Kudali
> >mutt. Was this mutt also a branch of sringeri or did it have a line of
> >teachers independent of the sringeri mutt?
> >See quote below in the links:
> >
> >http://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/archives/advaita-l/2006-June/017563.html
> >http://lists.advaita-vedanta.org/archives/advaita-l/2006-June/017554.html
>
> For the sake of the historical record, the Kudali maTha has two competing
> lineages. I don't know when the split started, but one of the two lineages
> declared that Kudali was the "real" Sringeri maTha. This was the one that
> produced a sannyAsin who forged currency and got caught.
>
> The other lineage in Kudali considers itself a branch from the Sringeri
> paramparA. Sri Hanagal Virupaksha Sastry, who became a sannyAsin later in
> his life, belonged to this one. Sri Virupaksha Sastry stood in a unique
> position of both teacher and disciple with respect to the Sringeri
> lineage.
>
> The split in the Kudali lineage continues to date. Some authors who are
> confused about all this or else want to deliberately confuse their readers
> claim that there is a lineage dispute in Sringeri. They refer only to this
> Kudali dispute.
>
> Vidyasankar
>
> ps. By the way, there are quite a few maThas in southern Maharashtra and
> Karnataka, which were established as branches from Sringeri over the last
> four or five centuries, many of which have the name Sringeri appended in
> their names. These include Karavir (Kolhapur, Maharashtra), Sankeshwar
> (Belgaum, Karnataka), Kudali (Shimoga, Karnataka), Avani (Kolar,
> Karnataka),
> Virupaksha (near Hampi, Bellary, Karnataka) etc.
>
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> Thanks & Regards,
> Venkat.
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> Sadgurubhyo Namah.
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