[Advaita-l] Age/History of Sankara

[B Shridhar]

 - Correction -

On 10/10/06, B Shridhar <kameshwarii at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 10/10/06, Sankaran Aniruddhan < sankaran_aniruddhan at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > namaste,
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> > Please note that at least one of the lineages seems to have
> > had AcAryas who have taken sannyAsa later in life (for
> > example, Sri Virupaksha Sastry). On the other hand,
> > sringeri has a long history of AcAryas taking sannyAsa at a
> > very young age. There is nothing surprising that there is a
> > big disparity in the number of AcAryas (this includes the
> > dvAraka and pUri mathas).
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> We spoke about whether kudali was a upa-peetam to sringeri. Now, are you
> saying that kudali has a guru parampara of accepting grahastas as sanyasi ?
> If yes, then we can explain the big disparity.
> Just please recheck your notes properly.
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> Dwaraka has bhramacharyas as sanyasis same as sringeri.
> Puri mutt accepts grahastas as sanyasi and that is why they have a lineage
> extending to more than 145 gurus to account for the age of sankara to be
> about 2500 years.
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> > Aniruddhan
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> > Sruti smRti purANAnAm Alayam karuNAlayam
> > namAmi bhagavatpAda Sam.karam lokaSam.karam
> >
> > --- B Shridhar <kameshwarii at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Most important Kudali Guru parampara also boosts of
> > > almost 70 acharyas so
> > > how can they become a upa-peetham to sringeri ?
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