There are at least 11 works that profess to be biographies of Shankara. He wrote commentaries on the Brahma-sutra, the principal Upanishads, and the Bhagavadgita, affirming his belief in one eternal unchanging reality ( brahman) and the illusion of plurality and differentiation. Shankara, also called Shankaracharya, (born 700?, Kaladi village?, India-died 750?, Kedarnath), philosopher and theologian, most renowned exponent of the Advaita Vedanta school of philosophy, from whose doctrines the main currents of modern Indian thought are derived.

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