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 शंकराचार्य [ śaṃkarācārya ] [ śaṃkarācārya ] m. N. of various teachers and authors , (esp.) of a celebrated teacher of the Vedânta philosophy and reviver of Brāhmanism (he is thought to have lived between A.D. 788 and 820 , but according to tradition he flourished 200 B.C. , and was a native of Kerala or Malabar ; all accounts describe him as having led an erratic controversial life ; his learning and sanctity were in such repute that he was held to have been an incarnation of Śiva , and to have worked various miracles ; he is said to have died at the age of thirty-two , and to have had four principal disciples , called Padma-pāda , Hastâmalaka , Sureśvara or Mandana , and Troṭaka ; another of his disciples , Ānanda-giri , wrote a history of his controversial exploits , called Śaṃkara-vijaya q.v. ; tradition makes him the founder of one of the principal Śaiva sects , the Daśa-nāmi-Daṇḍins or " Ten-named Mendicants " Lit. RTL. 87 ; he is the reputed author of a large number of original works , such as the Ātma-bodha , Ānanda-laharī , Jñāna-bodhinī , Maṇi-ratna-mālā , ; and commentaries on the Upanishads , and on the Brahma-mīmāṃsā or Vedānta-sūtra , Bhagavadgītā , and Mahā-bhārata , ) Lit. IW. 46 Lit. RTL. 53