Traditional Age of Sri Sankara Bhagavatpada – Records of the Dwaraka, Puri and Jyotir Mathas

Dwaraka Matha – 506 B.C

The ‘Vimarsa’ written by a former Acharya of the Dvaraka Matha, in 1872 records the incarnation of Sri Adi Sankaracharya as on Vaisakha Shukla panchami of the year 2631 of Yudhishtira Saka = 506 B.C.

Puri Govardhan Matha – 509 B.C

The ‘Yati-Dandaishvarya-Vidhanam’,book published as No.4 of the Govardhan Sankaracharya Math Granthamala, Puri (Orissa), in 1986, assigns Sri Sankaracharya’s advent in 509 B.C.

Jyotir Matha – 509 B.C

The ‘Mathaanusasana’, by Dandi Swami Advaitananda Sarasvathi, a Jyotir Matha Vibhaga publication of the year 1946, gives the year of birth of Sri Sankaracharya as 509 B.C.

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