Shamkaracarya, Śaṃkarācārya, Shamkara-acarya: 4 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Śaṃkarācārya can be transliterated into English as Samkaracarya or Shamkaracarya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Shamkaracharya.
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryŚaṃkarācārya (शंकराचार्य).—Name of a celebrated teacher of Vedānta philosophy and reviver of Brāhmanism.
Derivable forms: śaṃkarācāryaḥ (शंकराचार्यः).
Śaṃkarācārya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms śaṃkara and ācārya (आचार्य).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚaṃkarācārya (शंकराचार्य).—[masculine] [Name] of a celebrated scholar.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary1) Śaṃkarācārya (शंकराचार्य):—[from śaṃkara > śam] a See below.
2) [from śam] b m. Name of various teachers and authors, ([especially]) of a celebrated teacher of the Vedānta 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.[Calcutta edition], 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, Hastāmalaka, 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’ [Religious Thought and Life in India 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, etc.; and commentaries on the Upaniṣads, and on the Brahma-mīmāṃsā or Vedānta-sūtra, Bhagavadgītā, and Mahā-bhārata, etc.), [Indian Wisdom, by Sir M. Monier-Williams 46; Religious Thought and Life in India 53]
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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Partial matches: Acarya, Shankara.
Starts with: Shamkaracaryacarita, Shamkaracaryavatarakatha, Shamkaracaryavijayadindima, Shankaracaryapada.
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