“Since the date (of Sri Sankara Bhagavadpada) arrived at independently from internal evidence agrees, with remarkable exactness, with the date preserved in three of the Mutts, and since the Hultzsch list totally disagrees with the Sringeri list we are led to surmise that there must exist some records within the archives of the Mutt which have not been properly and carefully scrutinised or has seen the light of day. It is hoped that the authorities of the Mutt would afford facilities for real workers with true historical instinct to obtain a peep into them.”

(Extracted from the Article Sri Samkaracharya By Vaidyavisarada K.G.Natesa Sastri, B.A., M.R.A.S. published in Jignasa, Vol.1-4, 1927)