[Advaita-l] Age/History of Sankara

[Abhishek RK]

Just a few comments: this "discussion" can no more be called a debate. It
has become a mudslinging affair. Could the moderators look into this? Any
more mails I get on this issue I will promptly put them where they belong:
the trash bin :).

Regards,
Abhishek


On 10/10/06, B Shridhar <kameshwarii at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/10/06, Karthik Subramanian <karthikvathula at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Details regarding the birthplace of Adi Shankara was that it was an
> > agraharam on the banks of the Purna was known. Upon inspiration, the
> > Acharyal asked Dewan Seshadri Iyer to find out more about the exact
> > whereabouts of this agraharam. The Dewan with the help of the Travancore
> > royalty upon enquiries came to know that this place was known as Kaladi
> and
> > that there was an ancient site that was revered LOCALLY as the
> birthhouse of
> > Adishankara and another site that was where Aryambal was cremated. The
> > biography of the Acharyal written by the then administrator of the Mutt
> has
> > a dedicated and detailed chapter to this incident. You may please refer
> to
> > it for. Furthermore, foremost on the Acharyal's mind was to locate the
> > birthplace. The samadhi was took second place.
>
>
> By the above you can see for yourself that the  "... there was an ancient
> site that was revered LOCALLY as the birthhouse of Adisankara..." Which
> means that kaladi was known to everyone and due reveneration was being
> done
> there.
> But you deciphered that the 33rd acharya discovered kaladi which was
> unknown
> to the world till then.
> You must be the new columbus here !!!
>
>
> Furthermore, I never said that Kaladi was unknown from Adi Shankara's time
> > and that all the four Amnaya Peetadhipathis were roaming around
> searching
> > for Kaladi.
> >
> >   PS: I just elaborated on your part of the mail where you spoke about
> the
> > Keerthi sthambam. I had no intention of drawing or getting into a
> debate.
> >   Also, I was throwing light on the background of the Shankara Jayanthi
> > celebrations than on the controversies surrounding it.
>
>
> What sort of a light were you throwing when you said that " Also a
> festival
> called sankara jayanthi made it's way into the almanacs only after it was
> instituted by the Mahswamigal" ?
> You mean none of the almanacs knew about sankara jayanti till about
> 1910a.d
> .?
> You mean none of the amnaya mutt's and their devotees were used to
> celeberate sankara jayanti till about 1910 a.d.?
> The light which you are trying to throw comes from a fused bulb...
>
> Also, if you thought I was dragging you into a debate or initiating one or
> > anything like that, please note that I'm the last person who would want
> to
> > get into one or initiate one.
> >
> >   Regards,
> >   Karthik
> >
> > B Shridhar <kameshwarii at gmail.com> wrote:
> >   On 10/9/06, Karthik Subramanian wrote:
> > >
> > > Namaste Shridhar,
> > >
> > > You wrote: "Further in case the kanchi mutt relied on chidambaram as
> adi
> > > sankara's birth place then why do they have a adi sankara sthupi at
> > kaladi -
> > > it should have been at chidambaram. Also why are they celebrating the
> > > sankara jayanthi at kaladi instead of chidambaram ? Please forward
> facts
> > > instead of fiction."
> > >
> > > Kaladi was unknown to the world until Sri Sacchidananda Shivabhinava
> > > Nrsimha Bharati Mahaswamigal, the 33rd Peetadhipathi of Sringeri
> Sharada
> > > Peetam, discovered it in 1910 and consecrated shrines for Sri Adi
> > Shankara,
> > > Sri Sharadambal and Sri Aryambal there. Only in the latter part of the
> > 1900s
> > > did the Kanchi Mutt construct the Keerthi Sthambam in Kaladi.
> >
> >
> > If kaladi was unknown to the world then from the time of birth of adi
> > sankara to the time of the 33rd acharya of sringeri peetam, all the
> > previous
> > acharyas of the sringeri, dwarka, jyotir mutt, kanchi must have been
> > searching for a place called kaladi and then Lo! they were enlightened
> by
> > the 33rd acarya of the sringeri peetam.
> >
> > If you must know some data, please note that the 33rd acharya of the
> > sringeri peetham was the one who located the samadhi of Mother Aryambal
> at
> > kaladi and built her samadhi there. Kaladi was not discovered by the
> 33rd
> > acharya but the samadhi was discovered by him. Get your history straight
> > before your comment.
> >
> > Also, a festival called Shankara Jayanthi made its way into the almanacs
> > > only after it was instituted by MahaSwamigal.
> >
> >
> > One has to call this devotion !!!!!!
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > > Karthik
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Karthik
> > >
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