The Horoscope of Sankara Bhagavadpada

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The Date of Sankara Bhagavadpada has been needlessly drawn into controversy. This is partly due to the unwholesome desire of western scholars to demote Indian Chronology so as to line it up and subordinate it to the Chronology of Greece and partly due to the confusion in the History of India written by the Western historians. Sankara’s Horoscope as given by Citsukhacharya is given below. This is in accordance with what is recorded in the 32nd prakara of his Brihat-Sankara-Vijaya.

Note :- Constellation: Punarvasu 2nd quarter Rising Sun (Lagna) Kataka (cancer)

Time: Just afternoon (Abhijit-Muhurta)

Day: Sunday

Tithi: Panchami, bright half (Suklapaksha)

Month: Visakha

Year: Nandana,

Kali 2593 (509 B.C.)

Yudhistira Saka 2631.

(Date of Sankara By V.G.Ramachandran, Published by International Society for the Investigation of Ancient Civilizations, Madras – General Editor: Dr.N.Mahalingam, 1985)

Pushpagiri Mathamnya Stotram

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Puspagiri Mathāmnaya

” All the Sankarite Institutions in the Mysore state and Ceded Districts have the epithet “tungabhadra -tiravasi” and ” Karnataka-simhasana- pratisthapanacarya” in the preamble to epistles being issued, that is, Srimukhas.

The expression, “Karnataka-simhasana- pratisthapanacārya” refers to Vidyaranya the reputed founder of Vijayanagara Empire. In the seals of most of these institutions the name of Vidyāśankara is also embossed.

The epithets of the śrimukhams of all the institutions usually allude to the founders of the respective institutions.

And a reference to Vidyāranya stabilizing the Virūpākṣa matha and the on the banks of the river Tungabhadrā in a hymn styled Puspagiri mathāmnaya which is quoted in the Sānkaramaṭha-tattva-prakāsika – sangraha published by the great Telugu Poet, Kokundrum Venkataratnam Pantulu gāru.

He states that Vidyāraṇya came from Kañcipuram to Hampi or Virupakṣa and wrought many miracles. And after his life work in that region he returned to Kāñcipuram with great pomp and splendour. 1.

Thus Kanci has been connected with the propagation of dharma through the Sankarite Institutions in the Andhra and Karnataka regions.”

Sri Vidyanya Swami’s visit from Kanchi to Hampi Virupaksha Kshetra, establishment of Matha and His samadhi at Kanchi.

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ततः परं गजाद्रीन्दु-रूपके शकवत्सरे ।

विद्यारण्यगुरुः काञ्ची-नगर्यां सम्बभौ महान् ।।

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पुण्यक्षेत्रे विरुपाक्षे मठमेकं मनोहरम् ।

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वैशाख कृष्णपक्षस्य तृतीयायां विधोर्दिने ।

विसृज्य काञ्चीनगरं सहैश्वर्यं सवाहनम् ।।

विद्यारण्यगुरु:स्वामी कैलासालयम् आविशत् ।।

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tataḥ param gajadrindurupake sakavatsare | vidyaranyaguruh käñcinagaryam sambabhau mahān |

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punyakşetre virupakşe mathamekam manoharam |

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vaisākha kṛsnapakṣasya tṛtiyāyām vidhordine visrjya kāñcinagaram sahaisvaryam savāhanam || vidyaranyaguruḥsvami kailasālayam āvisat ||

(Dr.V.A.Devasenapati, Director, Centre for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Univerity of Madras – KAMAKOTTAM, NAYANMARS AND ADI SANKARA, Published By The Institute of Traditional Cultures, University Buildings, Madras, 1975. P. 50 &51)

The Telegraph: 21.03.2003

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The Telegraph: 21.03.2003

Mumbai, Jan. 20 (PTI): Putting an end to controversy, sankaracharyas across the country today unanimously accepted April 3, 509 BC as Adi Sankara’s exact date of birth.

Sankaracharyas of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, Dwarka Jyotirmath, Badrinath Govardhanpeeth and Puri unanimously accepted the date and said there was no need for debate on the subject.

At a seminar organised by the Ved Shastra Pandit Raksh Sabha, scholar Srikant Jichkar said the date, which was arrived at by both scientists and historians, coincides with the paramparas of the mutts across the country.

The controversy over the date that western scholars and historians in country had raised should now come to an end, he said.

Kanchi sankaracharya Jayendra Saraswathi said according to Indian philosophy, “we have to regard tradition, and since no political party or government in the country has understood the importance of Indian tradition, it is the duty of spiritual leaders to come together to establish this date as the beginning of determining and asserting many more truths of Bharat, now India”.

The seers urged the government to organise Adi Sankara’s birth centenary celebrations at his birthplace, Kaladi in Kerala, in 2010.

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/adi-sankara-birthdate-row-ends/cid/965788

GURUPARAMPARA STOTRAM

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संस्थाप्य स्वमठं कृत्वा तुङ्गभद्रा नदीतटे ।

तत्र स्थित्वा द्वादशाब्दं यतिं पृथ्वीधराभिधम् !

विद्यापीठाधिकं कृत्वा भारती संज्ञया गुरुः ।

आगच्छत्स्वेच्छया काञ्चीं पर्यटन् पृथिवीतले ॥

तत्र संस्थाप्य कामाक्षीं जगाम परमं पदम् ।

विश्वरूपयतिं स्थाप्य स्वाश्रमस्य प्रचारणे ॥

स्वयं काञ्चीमगात्तूर्णं श्रीपृथ्वीधरभारती ।

तद्वृत्तान्तं समाकर्ण्य तपसस्सिद्धये तदा ॥

” Having established his own matham there at the banks of Tungabhadra, the Acharya anointed Sri. Prithvidhara, as the head of that monastery, the center for learning and gave Bharatii as his dīksha name.

Later he moved to Kanchipuram on his own will by visiting various kshetras enroute. He established Kamakhi there and attained moksha.

Meanwhile Prithvidhara, after hearing the news of Acharya leaving this world, anointed Viswarūpa as his successor to carry out the activities enshrined in the directives of his Guru, visited kanchi himself very quickly.”

[Manuscript No. 2146 (i) – Jambunatha Bhat Landage Collection – The List of Pontifical Preceptors of the Bharati Ascetic order of the Tungabhadra region forming part of the Reports on Sanskrit Manuscripts in South India, Volume III. (1905). [Vide Madras Govt. Oriental Mss. Library, VI-B, Nos. 18-20.] Published by Dr. E. Hultzsch. (a German scholar) ]