ExpertDabbler

In the last few days, i had a chance to read about Advaita Philosophy and Adi Shankara. Man, i was mighty impressed by this philosophy. I’ve never read about advaita before. Looks like Sankara was far ahead of his times. Much of the credit for reviving Hindusim should go to him.

Later on, I searched for the Mutts apparently established by him and was interested to know the origins and history of those Mutts. This brought me to the origin of Kanchi Mutt.

I’v heard even the venerable Cho mentioning that the Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt is about 2500 years old. And then i found some sites which states that Adi Shankara himself was born in 7-8th century AD. My mathematics thus puts the maximum possible Mutt age to about 1400 years.

If indeed it was formed in 4th century BC as the Kanchi Mutt claims, then it could not have been instituted by Adi Shankara.

Moreover there are other theories that suggests that Shankara attained Moksha in Kedarnath and not Kanchi as claimed (by the Kanchi Mutt). The other version also states emphatically that the Kanchi Mutt existed in Kumbakonam as a branch of the Sringeri Mutt.. and parted ways sometime during 1800 s
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What is common between history and software?
Well, both gets rewritten often and version control is always a challenge:)