2 moments
Birth at Kalady
· Kalady, Ernakulam district, Kerala, India
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain in India because its term of copyright has expired. · file According to the oldest hagiographies summarized by the canonical article, Shankara was born at Kalady in present-day Kerala. This is the principal traditional birthplace claim, although the article also reports an alternative Chidambaram tradition. The article dates his birth c. 700 CE; 700 is used as the supported year-level anchor. The birthplace claim is hagiographical, and the same article notes an alternative Chidambaram birth tradition.
Alleged death at Kedarnath
· Kedarnath, Rudraprayag district, Uttarakhand, India
Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported · file A group of hagiographies associated with the four cardinal mathas places Shankara's death at Kedarnath, in the Himalayas. The site is one of several conflicting death-place traditions reported by the article. The article dates his death c. 750 CE; 750 is used as the supported year-level anchor. Death place is contested: the article also reports Kanchi, Kashmir, Kerala, and Ganges traditions. Coordinates represent Kedarnath town rather than a demonstrably exact death site.