dakSiNAmUrti stotra, and Tamil and Kashmir zaivisms

[Vidyasankar Sundaresan]

Swaminathan Madhuresan <smadhuresan at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

>....In Saundaryalahari, Sankara praises
>Jnana Sambandhar.

draviDa-SiSu in this poem is a very ambiguous reference, not to mention the
doubt about Sankara's authorship of the saundaryalaharI.

>Is the Sankaran hagiography indebted to
>Sambandhar myth (A baby teaching older folks)?

Not in the written texts. Some south Indian orally transmitted legends about
Sankara are probably modeled upon the Sambandhar story.

Vidyasankar


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