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    Adi Shankara (8th c. CE), also called Adi Shankaracharya (Sanskrit: आदि शङ्कर, आदि शङ्कराचार्य, romanized: Ādi Śaṅkara, Ādi Śaṅkarācārya, lit. 'First Shankaracharya'...
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  • the free dictionary. Shankara (also written as Sankara or Samkara, IAST śaṅkara) can refer to: Shiva, the Hindu god Adi Shankara, 8th-century Indian philosopher...
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    Sanskrit, as exemplified by the Vedic scholar and teacher (acharya) Adi Shankara (9th cent. CE); in a broader sense it refers to a popular medieval and...
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    Shankaracharya (Sanskrit: शङ्कराचार्य, IAST: Śaṅkarācārya, "Shankara-acharya") is a religious title used by the heads of amnaya monasteries called mathas...
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  • Shankara is a raga in Hindustani classical music. The raga emerges from Bilaval thaat. The raga is of audav-shadav nature, i.e., it has five swaras (notes)...
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    philosopher Adi Shankara. Little is known of his life and works, except that he is mentioned in all the traditional accounts (Shankara Vijayams) as the...
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  • tradition) foundation of Vedanta. All prominent Vedantic teachers, including Shankara, Bhaskara, Ramanuja, Madhva, Nimbarka, and Vallabha wrote commentaries...
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  • Jagadguru Adi Shankara is a 2013 Indian Telugu-language biographical film written and directed by J. K. Bharavi that depicts the life of 8th-century philosopher...
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    tradition is aligned with Advaita Vedanta, and regards Adi Shankara as its founder or reformer. Shankara championed the thesis that ultimate reality is impersonal...
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  • Shankara is a 1991 Indian Bollywood film directed by Sudarshan Nag and produced by D. Tann. It stars Sunny Deol and Neelam Kothari. Sunny Deol as Shankar...
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  • Ranga Shankara is one of Bangalore's well known theatres. It is located in the south Bangalore area of J.P Nagar and is run by the Sanket Trust. The auditorium...
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  • well studied commentaries on the Brahma Sūtras include the bhashya by Adi Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhvacharya, Bhaskara, Baladeva Vidyabhushan, Ramanandacharya...
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  • It is notable as the birthplace of 9th century Indian philosopher Adi Shankara. Kalady came to prominence only after its rediscovery in the late 19th...
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  • of Adi Shankara, the Advaita philosopher. He was made the first Jagadguru (head) of the Dvāraka Pīṭhaṃ, the monastery founded by Adi Shankara in Dwaraka...
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  • Adi Shankara, a Hindu philosopher of the Advaita Vedanta school, composed a number of commentarial works. Due to his later influence, a large body of works...
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    Shiva (redirect from Shiva Shankara)
    (lord of the universe), Mahadeva, Mahandeo, Mahasu, Mahesha, Maheshvara, Shankara, Shambhu, Rudra, Hara, Trilochana, Devendra (chief of the gods), Neelakanta...
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    Sultanate." The Vidyashankara temple in Sringeri is the samadhi of Vidya shankara, the guru of Vidyaranya which was built over the former's samadhi by his...
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    head of the matha is called Shankarayacharya, the title derives from Adi Shankara. Śri Śringerī Mutt, as the Pītham is referred to in common parlance, is...
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  • Shankara is a 2016 Telugu-language action film directed by Tatineni Satya and produced by R. V. Chandramouli Prasad under the Sri Leela Movies banner....
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  • Ramnagar Manikyam Shankara, best known as R. M. Shankara, is a two-time World Carrom Champion from Karnataka, India. He has been a several-time Indian...
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  • [citation needed] Shankara Vijayams (IAST Śaṃkaravijayaṃ) are traditional hagiographies of the Advaita Vedanta exegete Adi Shankara, describing his 'conquest...
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    Nodiswamy, Navirodu Heege (1987). Nag built a theatre space in Bangalore Ranga Shankara: . She is a recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (2008), the Padma...
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    6th-7th century CE, with the seminal works of Gaudapada, Maṇḍana Miśra, and Shankara, who is considered by tradition and Orientalist Indologists to be the most...
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  • Adi Shankara's mother Leela Narayana Rao as Ubhaya Bharathi Sreepathy Ballal as Kumarila Bhatta G. V. Iyer as Veda Vyasa Gopi as young Shankara Radhakrishna...
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    Vedanta tradition. However, the association of the Dasanāmis with the Shankara maṭhas remained nominal. Ēkadandis were already known during what is sometimes...
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    D. Vinayachandran Edappalli Raghavan Pillai Edasseri Govindan Nair G. Shankara Kurup Irayimman Thampi K. Ayyappa Paniker K. C. Kesava Pillai K. V. Ramakrishnan...
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    the hagiographies based on Madhava's Sankshepa-shankara-vijaya, the 8th century philosopher Adi Shankara died at the mountains near Kedarnath; although...
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    shrines of Vishnu, whereas Rameswaram is a shrine of Shiva. Defined by Adi Shankara, each dhāma represents a particular yuga, with Badrinath representing Satya...
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  • shrine for the Advaita Vedanta teacher Adi Shankara. The matha-tradition attributes its founding to Adi Shankara, but this and the reliability of the matha's...
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  • Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University (CSVTU) is a Public State University located in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India. On 30 April 2005, the foundation...
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