- Adi
Shankara (8th c. CE), also
called Adi
Shankaracharya (Sanskrit: आदि शङ्कर, आदि शङ्कराचार्य, romanized: Ādi Śaṅkara, Ādi Śaṅkarācārya, lit. 'First Shankaracharya'...
- 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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Shankaracharya (Sanskrit: शङ्कराचार्य, IAST: Śaṅkarācārya, "
Shankara-acharya") is a
religious title used by the
heads of
amnaya monasteries called mathas...
- Avidyā is a
central tenet of
Shankara's Advaita, and
became the main
target of Ramanuja's
criticism of
Shankara. In
Shankara's view, avidyā is adhyasa, "the...
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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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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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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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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...
