The Film Adi Shankaracharya

[Peter Wyzlic]

Am 24.05.2009 um 09:58 schrieb Jonathan Silk:

> I've just run across, entirely by accident, the feature film Adi
> Shankaracharya, which boasts that it is the first (maybe only?)  
> feature film
> in Sanskrit. Has this film been discussed somewhere by indologists, or
> others especially from the point of view of the Sanskrit?

There is a German Ph.D. thesis on this film:

Mangold, Sylvia: Ādi Śaṅkarācāryaḥ : G. V. Iyers Filmkommentar  
zur Religionsphilosophie Śaṅkaras. - Frankfurt am Main [et al.] :  
Lang, 1994. - XII, 248 p. - (Theion ; 4). - ISBN 3-631-47352-4
Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss., 1993

By the way, the complete movie is available on Google Video:
URL: <http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6524043112627932444>

All the best
Peter Wyzlic
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Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften
Abteilung für Indologie
Universität Bonn
Regina-Pacis-Weg 7
53113 Bonn