Date of birth of Adi Shankaracharya

[sunil bhattacharjya]

Dear friends,

It is very sad that the Sringeri Math on the bank of the river Tunga has not been able to find the correct date of Adi Shankara. In the book "Madhaviya Shankara Digvijaya", published by the Sringeri Math, it is given that when Adi Shankara was born, the grahas were in Nija (i.e., in own house)  or were Tungi (i.e., were exalted). The Sringeri Math claims that Adi Sankara was born in 788 AD(CE). I checked and found that the Mahagraha Shani (i.e., the Saturn) was neither in his own house Capricorn nor in the house of exaltation in Libra, in the year 788 AD. In fact, it is so easy to check, even without a sophisticated astronomical software, in which zodiacal house, the Saturn was in any year in the past.

As the stars don't lie, we have no other way than to say that Adi Shankara was not born in 788 AD(CE) and the Shringeri math has to admit that 788 AD(CE) is not the year of the birth of Adi Shankara.  This way the Sringeri math will be able to restore their reputation as the champion of truth, like the existing reputation as the lover of the truth,  the other Sankara mathas (established by Adi Shankara), have.

Secondly, in early 20th century AD(CE) the Mathadhipati of Sringeri said that Adi Shankara was born on the  14th year of the reign of Vikramaditya. Moreover the Madhviya Sankara Digvijaya also says that the Khandanakara (i.e. Vikramaditya) was contemporary of Adi Sankaracharya. On all these counts, the year of 788 AD(CE) can't be that date of Adi Sankaracharya. The Sringeri math has to admit the facts and show that they value the historical truths over the historical lies imposed on the Sringeri math by the Indian Marxist

historians, in the past.

Regards,

Sunil K.Bhattacharjya

[Ravindra Shivde]

शनिर्मकरकुंभेशः इत्येते राशिनायकाः ॥

Saturn is the master of two houses. Makar (Capricorn), and Kumbh (Aquarius). It is possible that Shani was in Kumbh in AD 788

Please check.

- Ravindra Shivde

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[sunil bhattacharjya]

Ravindraji,

(a) If you found Saturn  in Aquarius in 788 AD (CE), you can boldly claim it.

(b) Also  try to find the Vikramaditya who wrote "Khandana ...." and  became king 14 years before the birth of Adi Shankara.

Sunil K Bhattacharjya

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[sunil bhattacharjya]

Dear friends,

Adi Sankara was not born in 788 BCE. Ravindra Shivde's attempt to find fault is meaningless. Saturn was neither in Makar nor in Kumbha rashi in 788 AD(CE). Most importantly the King Vikramaditya who was a contemporary of Adi Shankaracharya, was not living in or around 788 AD (CE).

The lack of courage has been the main stumbling stone in the path of the Administration of the Sringeri Sharada Peetham, in denouncing the wrong date of 788 AD(CE), for Adi Sankaracharya, which the Sringeri Peeth had to accept to be in conformity with the chronology based on the Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT). THE AIT has long been disproved. It is high time  Dr. V. R. Gowrishankar, the CEO and Administrator of the Sri Sringeri Sharada peetham, shows his mettle and denounces the 788 AD date for Adi Shankaracharya.

Sincerely,

Sunil K.Bhattacharjya

[sunil bhattacharjya]

Anandji.

I am unable to agree with you, because you have not at all read any of the historical works of the Hindus.

There are five areas covered by the Puranas and these are called the pancha-lakshanas. One of the lakshanas is History. In addition there are the two great epics: the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, which are totally concerned with "History". In no country and in no religion such history books are found. The Indian history books  gave so much of detailed history that we can find the dates of the Mahabharata events after more than five millennia.  We can also find the dates of the Ramayana times which occurred more than three millennia before the Mahabharata times.

Then there is the Rajatarangini, which gives the history of Kashmir upto five thousand years ago. If time permits I will bring out the Rajatarangini, with all the missing details.  During the Mahabharata war, the Kashmir king was a child and that is why he could not participate in that war. Similarly in the Eastern India, Kamarupa (or Kamrup) has their ancient history. The Nidhanpur inscription give details from the times of King Janaka. From the 11th century onward there is detailed history of Assam. There are also some details of the different kngdoms such as the Malava kingdom of the Paramaras and the like.

As regards Romila Thapar, I have a mixed feeling. I agree that  She is intelligent, but she is totally blind on ancient Indian history, as she had been thoroughly hypnotised by the British historians and she is unable to see the distortions in Indian history by  Sir William Jones in the late 18th century. In those days there was the British Moralist movement and it appears that Jones repented and could not excuse himself for the great crime committed by him and he died within a year (i.e., in his forties). Prof. Max Muller proposed the fake Aryan Invasion Theory in late 19th century and later on he realized his mistake and he quickly retracted, but the British historians continued to implement the distortions in the history textbooks and they were joined by their Indian cronies and sycophants like Romila Thapar.

Sometime back I felt sad for Romila Thapar and wanted her to see the truths of the ancient Indian History, but she seems to wish  to live with the historical lies and fallacies.

Sincerely,

Sunil K. Bhattacharjya

On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 4:13 PM amsharanx <AMSH...@gmail.com> wrote:

First of all, Hindus did not usually maintain records like the Buddhists did or the Muslims did. I am right now reading the book written by Dr Thapar who has done records  searching  in Persian, Arabic and Jain evidences and then British records to conclude about that - Mehmud Ghazni's ill fame in Indis was created by the British - so is my conclusion after reading her work.

So, even she does not find not conclusive evidences in the Hindus records  about it - even though it was their temple  which got destroyd.

Thanks
Anand M Sharan

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[skbhattacharjya]

Dear friends,

In case you are wondering about the real year of birth of Adi Shankaracharya, it was 509 BCE.  Adi Shankaracharya established the first math in Kudali Shringeri,  (around 10 KM from  Shimoga in Karnataka), at the confluence of the rivers Tunga and Bhadra. Adi Shankara installed the Bhoga-lingam at the Kudali-Shringeri math. This math is in the Shimoga district of Karnataka. Adi Shankaracharya installed the Yoga-lingam in the Kanchi Kamakoti math in Kanchipuram, where he took his Samadhi in 477 BCE,

In the year 1311 AD(CE) Alauddhin Khilji sent  Malik Kafur to attack Karnataka and Swami Vidyashankara, the Mathadhipati of Kudali Math, had to escape to Kanchipuram. In the same year Malik Kafur returned to Delhi and he was killed five year later by Alauddin khilji's son in 1316 AD. Swami Vidyashankara tirtha eventually returned to Kudali Shringeri. He was succeeded by his disciple  Swami  Bharatitirtha. Around that time the Vijayanagara kingdom was established by Hukka and Bukka and they became disciples of Swami Bharata Tirtha. With the help of the Vijayanagara kings, Swami Bharati Tirtha established the Shringeri math in the Chikkamagaluru district., in the 14th century AD (CE). With the royal support this branch math prospered and it started claiming that Adi Shankaracharya established it in 788 CE (AD).

With this summary I close this topic.

Regards,

Sunil K. Bhattacharjya

[sunil bhattacharjya]

Shri Nicholasji,

Adi Shankaracharya was born in 509 BCE. There was only one Vikramaditya who wrote the book "Khandana khanda khAdya", and he was ShriHarsha Vikramaditya of the Malava kingdom with his capital in Ujjain. Even AlBiruni's account mentioned him as the king after whom, there was the first Vikrama Smvat Era , which started from 457 BCE.

Some South-Indian scholars  made some wild guesses on dates  like the 5th century AD..

Best

Sunil K. Bhattacharjya

On Sat, Jul 9, 2022 at 7:49 PM Nicholas Kazanas <nid...@gmail.com> wrote:

Shri Bhattacharja,

Other southern scholars give a date circa` 5th cent AD. This too I find wrong - just like 8th cent.

What date do you propose and on what grounds?

I would be grateful for a reasonable reply!

N. Kazanas

 

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