Bhagwan Shankaracharya Charit

Author(s): Savailal Chhotamlal Vora
Publisher: Purushottamdas Gigabhai Shah

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customs. pocaliar to a large section of the inhabitant of Keral and (e) that the same 'usages...and customs are now existed for ages together and are still observed by them. When therefore this exalted personage was born and how long he lived, are this questions of absorbing interest. " What material have we to determine the time of his incarnation ? Biographies of Shankeracharya are available both in Malabar and other places Mudbavacharya, who is admitted to be an authority ont. his subject, declares in that masterl, work of his . called Shri Shanker Vijaya. that at the time of Shanker acharya's birth, the planctary bodies had been arranged and grouped in a particular manner, in the Zodiac. A person, who had during his lifetime filled the responsible position of the minister to the first Hindu king of the celebrated Vijianagar, wbo has been close ly as sociated with the building of the city of Vijianagar, who after his * retrement from secular labours had spent his life in writing his well known commentaries on the Vedas and other important religeous works of the Hindus, who in consequence had realized the dangers of' exaggeration and equivocation and who had been once the chief Swami in Shringiri math under the name of Vidyaryanya such a person can not for a moment be supposed to have consciously designed to mislead his readers by stating facts with the accuracj of which he had not satisfied himself. We can therefore very well believe that he knew what he was writing about and what tbe character therefore was. The verse is quoted below.'' ::::. P.P. Ac. Gunratnasuri M.S. Jun Gun Aaradhak Trust