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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->4. Shankaracharya in 500BC
- I read many times that Kanchi Mutt was 2500 years old and I never understood how. If Shankaracharya lived in 500BC, that would explain.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I already read this somewhere at IF I think, or maybe it was elsewhere. But it is common knowledge. If I recall aright, Sringeri Math is the only Math that has accepted 500ce for Shankaracharya. All other Maths still stick to the original 500bce (the traditional calculation of Shankaracharya's lifetime).
It was only recent claims (most famously the ones by communist Namboodiripad -sp?) who started making statements like 'Namboodris came to Kerala in 500/700/800ce'. See how the dates have got gradually closer to present time, as communists tend to do with Vedas as well. Perhaps tomorrow people will insist Namboodris came to Kerala after the British...
This does not mean Syrian christians' claim of having converted Namboodiris is true, because they have different origin myths, only one or more of which involve conversion of some Namboodiris.
Funnily, some Syrian christian sites trying to do a PR makeover, now claim that Thomas the apostle converted 'dalits' not brahmins (to make christianity PC for the present). They have now adopted Namboodiripad's history rewrite as proof for their falsehood of how 'christianity got to Kerala before Hinduism'. Of course, it can be completely ignored, just as all other christolies. (Besides, Hinduism was there in Kerala before the movement of Namboodiris there; but even so, Namboodiris have been in Kerala for longer than the christian era.)
Hindus should stop being naively trusting: need to stop accepting history rewrites by communists, christocolonials, missionaries and others - because the latter all have their own ideologies' interests at heart, not a sincere interest in factual history.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->4. Shankaracharya in 500BC
- I read many times that Kanchi Mutt was 2500 years old and I never understood how. If Shankaracharya lived in 500BC, that would explain.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I already read this somewhere at IF I think, or maybe it was elsewhere. But it is common knowledge. If I recall aright, Sringeri Math is the only Math that has accepted 500ce for Shankaracharya. All other Maths still stick to the original 500bce (the traditional calculation of Shankaracharya's lifetime).
It was only recent claims (most famously the ones by communist Namboodiripad -sp?) who started making statements like 'Namboodris came to Kerala in 500/700/800ce'. See how the dates have got gradually closer to present time, as communists tend to do with Vedas as well. Perhaps tomorrow people will insist Namboodris came to Kerala after the British...
This does not mean Syrian christians' claim of having converted Namboodiris is true, because they have different origin myths, only one or more of which involve conversion of some Namboodiris.
Funnily, some Syrian christian sites trying to do a PR makeover, now claim that Thomas the apostle converted 'dalits' not brahmins (to make christianity PC for the present). They have now adopted Namboodiripad's history rewrite as proof for their falsehood of how 'christianity got to Kerala before Hinduism'. Of course, it can be completely ignored, just as all other christolies. (Besides, Hinduism was there in Kerala before the movement of Namboodiris there; but even so, Namboodiris have been in Kerala for longer than the christian era.)
Hindus should stop being naively trusting: need to stop accepting history rewrites by communists, christocolonials, missionaries and others - because the latter all have their own ideologies' interests at heart, not a sincere interest in factual history.