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14. Prem Lata, Shankaracharya, Sumit Publications, Delhi, 1982. (in English)
LC Call No.: B133.S49 P74 1982
15. Indusekhara S. Madugula, The Acarya, Sankara of Kaladi : A Story, Motilal
Banarsidass, Delhi, 1985. (in English)
LC Call No.: B132.S5 M33 1985
16. Vishnudatta Rakesh, Bharatiya asmita aur rashtriya cetana ke aadhaar Sri
Jagadguru Adya Sankaracarya, Bhashyakara Jagadguru Sri Adya Sankaracarya
Dvadasa Satabdi Samaroha Mahasamiti, Haridvar 1989. (in Hindi)
LC Call No.: B133.S5 B47 1989
17. B. R. Sastri, Sankaracarya, Hyderabad, 1990. (in Telugu)
LC Call No.: n.a.
18. D. B. Gangolli, The Essential Adi Shankara, Adhyatma Prakasha Karyalaya,
Bangalore, 1992.
LC Call No.: B133.S5 G33 1992
19. Govind Chandra Pande, Sankaracarya, vicara aura sandarbha, National
Publishing House, New Delhi, 1992. (in Hindi)
LC Call No.: BS133.S5 P34 1992
20. Govind Chandra Pande, Life and thought of Sankaracarya, Motilal Banarsidass,
Delhi, 1994. (in English)
LC Call No.: B133.S5 P33 1994
21. T. S. Rukmani, Shankaracharya, Publications Division, Ministry of Information
and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, New Delhi, 1994. (in English)
LC Call No.: B133.S5 R85 1994
THE SANKARAVIJAYA LITERATURE
Transliteration Key
A number of works titled Sankaravijaya, or Sankara digvijaya, are extant in India. These
are typically known after the names of their authors, but are mostly hagiographic
accounts of Sankara's life, with myth and legend interspersed with historical fact. The
primary reason for this situation is that most of these texts were written many centuries
after Sankara lived, so that these authors already regarded Sankara as a legendary figure.
The following is a brief survey of these texts.
mAdhavIya Sankaravijaya - The mAdhavIya is probably the oldest available, and also
the most authentic and widely known among the different Sankaravijayas today. It is
certainly the most popular such text in the advaita tradition, and is also known as the