Shankaracarya of the North

[Edwin Bryant]

When I was last in India ('94-'95), the Northern gadi was being contested
by three different acaryas, but I don't know the lineage details of the
third.   Edwin

On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:

> I may be out of date, but I believe there are two acaryas who claim to
> hold the Northern Sankara gadi:
>
> The first lineage goes Brahmanandasarasvati -> Santanandasarasvati ->
> Visnudevanandasarasvati.
>
> The other one goes Santanandasarasvati -> Svarupanandasarasvati.
>
> Svarupananda is simultaneously (or was for some time) the incumbent of the
> western gadi in Dwaraka.
>
> There is much more detail to this than the simple lineages above would
> suggest.  Perhaps someone else who is more up to date than me would like
> to elaborate?
>
> All the best,
> Dominik
>
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