Place · Shankara matha seat · India
Kānchī Sarvajña Pītha
Kanchi's 'throne of omniscience', which several traditions say Shankara ascended after establishing the four directional mathas. Whether a fifth seat belongs in the set is itself a long-running dispute.
Philosophy & lineage
- Function
- Learning & scholarship
- Tradition
- Advaita traditions; Kanchi matha lineage
- Confidence
- Qualified / contested
- Location
- 12.834, 79.704
Connections (1)
- Life routeAdi Shankaracharya
The Sarvajña Pītha at Kānchī is where several accounts have him ascend the throne of omniscience at the end. Whether Kanchi is a fifth seat of the scheme is disputed between the maṭhas, and the dispute is conducted by citing hagiographies written centuries after the events they describe. The Kanchi maṭha's own succession list runs back to Shankara and is rejected by Shringeri; the two institutions have conducted the argument in print and in court within living memory.
On these journeys
Sources
Adi Shankara — Sarvajna Peetha at Kanchi
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