![]() Koller and many Indologists believed Swami Adi Shankaracharya lived from 700 to 750 CE.Īdi Shankaracharya was from a poor Brahmin family from Kaladi (currently Kerela, India). An Indian scholar, Sir Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, believed 680 CE as the Adi Shankara birth date.A scholarly commentary by Anandagiri or Anandajnana believed saint Adi Shankaracharya’s birth was in 44 BCE till 12 BCE.Therefore, researchers believe that the sage Adi Shankara lived around 509 to 477 BCE. Moreover, the books like Shankara Satpatha and others provide information regarding his birth’s astronomical data, highlighting 509 BCE as his birth date. ![]() ![]() According to the records from the Adi Shankaracharya’s four cardinal peethams, these four institutes were established on various dates like Dvaraka Pitham (491 BCE), Jyotirmatha Pitham (485 BCE).So, each of them proposes theories and dates for Shankaracharya’s birth. Regarding the birth of Adi Shankara, there are disparities among historians, scholars, and researchers.
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