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Āṣāḍha (आषाढ) māsa, Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa Amāvāsyā, at अपराह्णः
(vyaapti tithi rule)
“जज्ञे विश्वजितश्चिदम्बरभुवः श्रीमान् विशिष्टोदरान्नाथस्यासुविनिर्गमात् परम् असावध्यर्धवर्षद्वये।
वैशाखे विभवे सिते च दशमीमध्ये विवस्वानिव स्वावासायितकुञ्जपुञ्जिततमस्काण्डार्भटीखण्डनः॥७४॥
वैधव्यं विबुधालये निवसतिं वृत्तिं च भृत्याश्रयां
बन्धूनां च विमाननाम् अनितरासङ्गां दशां चात्मनः।
कौलीनात् कुलदूषणादपि भयादालोच्य गत्यन्तरा-
भावाद् अध्यटवि स्तृते नवदले क्षिप्तो जनन्यैव यः॥७५॥
यं व्याघ्रपादमहिला विरुवन्तम् आराद् आदाय गेहम् उपनीय निवेद्य पत्ये।
स्तन्यादिना समपुषद् दययोपनीय माध्यन्दिनिश्च यम् अबूबुधद् आत्मविद्याः॥७६॥
विद्याकर्म समाप्य सर्ववचसां सारार्थवित् संयमं साक्षादाप्य जगद्गुरोरथ पुरः स्वेच्छोदिताच्छङ्करात्।
तत्पार्श्वस्थितपद्मभूकरयुगप्राप्तां दधत्पादुकां वीरां व्योमगतौ स संयमधनस्तिल्वाटवीम् आवसत्॥७७॥
वेदान्तदेशिकचिदम्बरनाथवेधोवाक्यैर्जगद्गुरुरधिष्ठितकामपीठः।
अष्टासु दिक्ष्वपि निरस्तसमस्तविद्वद्वादावलेपविभवो व्यचरद्धरित्रीम्॥७८॥
काश्मीरिकान् लघु विजित्य गिरोद्भटादीन् सर्वज्ञपीठम् अधिरुह्य च शारदाग्रे।
आत्रेयकन्दरम् अनुव्रजितोऽपि शिष्यैः अन्तर्हितः सतनुरेव स शङ्करेन्द्रः॥७९॥
द्वापञ्चाशतम् इत्थम् अद्वयनयं वर्षान् प्रवृष्य क्षितौ
पुण्यायां परतोऽपि तस्य सुपथश्चिख्यासयेव द्रुते।
सिद्धार्थिन्ययनेऽप्युदञ्चिनि शुचौ दर्शेऽह्नि काले कलेः
विद्याशेवधिपावके (३९४१) गुरुरभूत् सच्चिद्विलासो मुनिः॥८०॥
—पुण्यश्लोकमञ्जरी
This preceptor was the son of Viśvajit of Cidambaram through viśiṣṭā; like the Sun who dispels the dense darkness veiling his presence, He was born on the tenth day of the bright fortnight in the month of Vaiśākha in the year Vibhava twelve months after his father’s demise. One who was abandoned as a child in the midst of a forest by his mother herself without any possible solution to her deplorable plight, viz., widowhood, lack of shelter, servitude, insult of relatives fear of slander etc. Who, on crying at a distance was taken by the wife of Vyāghrapāda, to her home and was compassionately breastfed by her after informing her husband. The sage initiated him and imparted the ātmavidyā. Then, the adept in self control/ascetic principles, having completed studies, well-versed in scriptures, having received the grace bestowed by the Universal Preceptor (Śrī Śaṅkara) who manifested of his will before (him), and having received the mighty sacred sandals (of Śrī Śaṅkara) offered by Padmapāda appearing by the side of Śrī Śaṅkara, He (the Dhīraśaṅkara) stayed in Tilvaraṇya. The Universal Preceptor having adorned the seat of Kāma Pīṭha, He wandered through the earth triumphant of having wiped off the arrogance of the adherents/scholars of rival schools in eight quarters (of the earth) and established the doctrine of Advaita. He Śaṅkarendra, having conquered easily the Kashmiri scholars Girodbhaṭṭa and others, ascended the Sarvajña Pīṭha in Kashmir and though being followed by disciples to the Ātreya caves (in the Himalayas), disappeared alive in the embodied form itself. Thus, the preceptor sage spreading/showering the tenets of Advaya on this sacred earth for fifty-two years and with a desire to spread this noble path in the other world, He disappeared on the new moon day in the month of Āṣāḍha of the Uttarayaṇa in the year Siddhārthi of Kali era 3914. The sage Saccidvilāsa became the preceptor. This preceptor is turīyatīta-Śaṅkara. Some scholars mistake him to be Śrī Śaṅkara Bhagavadpāda and compile biography with inconsistencies.Names
- Sanskrit
- काञ्ची ३८ जगद्गुरु-श्री-अभिनवशङ्करेन्द्र-सरस्वती-आराधना
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