Essays Lectures on Religion of Hindu Vol 01

SR No.: 007688
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: H H Wilson
Publisher: Trubner and Company London
Publication Year: 1861
Total Pages: 480
Language: English
Classification: Interfaith & Hinduism
File Size: 28 MB

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yet the exact period at which he flourished can by no means be determined. I have, in another place, expressed my belief that he may have existed about the eighth or ninth century1. Subsequent enquiry has failed to add any reasons to those assigned for such an inference; but it has offered nothing to weaken or invalidate the conclusion there proposed 2.
Preface to the Sanscrit Dictionary [first edition], p. XVII.
2A Hálakánara Manuscript, in the possession of the late Col. MACKENZIE, entitled Sankara Vijaya, (Mackenzie Collection 11, 34) gives the following list of the spiritual heads of the Śringeri establishment:
17. Nrisinha Bhárati Áchárya. IS. Sankara Bháratí Áchárya. 19. Nrisinha Bháratí Áchárya. 20. Purushottoma Bháratí Áchárya. 21. Rámachandra Bháratí Áchárya. 22. Nrisinha Bhárati Áchárya. 23. Immádi Bháratí Áchárya. 24. Abhinava Nrisinha Bhárati Áchárya.
1. Govinda Páda.
2. Sankara Áchárya. 3. Sanandana Áchárya. 4. Surásura Áchárya.
25. SachchidanandaBháratíÁchárya. 26. Nrisinha Bháratí Áchárya.
27. Inimádi Sachchidananda Bháratí Áchárya.
5. Trofaka Áchárya. 6. Hastamalaka Áchárya. 7. Juánaghana Áchárya. S. Jnánottama Áchárya. 9. Sinhagiriśvara Áchárya. 10. Íśvaratirtha Áchárya. 11. Nrisinha Múrtti Áchárya. 12. Vitarana Áchárya. 13. Vidyásankara Áchárya. 14. Bharati Krishna Áchárya. 15. Vidyaranya Áchárya. 16. Chandra Sekhara Áchárya. 29. Nrisinha Bhárati Áchárya. This gives 27 descents from SANKARA. As the Mahant is elected from the disciples either by the Guru when about to die, or by the Svámalu, the spiritual chiefs of other establishments of the same sect, he is raised probably to the station in the prime of manhood, and in the ease and dignity of his sanctity has a favourable prospect of a long life. Twenty-five years to a Guru
28. Abhinava Sachchidananda Bháratí Áchárya.