TIME LINES OF SREE SANKARA ACHARYA Year (AD) 788

TIMELINES OF SREE SANKARA ACHARYA

 

SRUTHY SMRUTHY PURANANAAM AALAYAM KARUNAALAYAM NAMAAMI BHAGAVAD PAADAAM SANKARAM LOKASANKARAM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year (AD)             
<788
THERE EXISTED IN SASALAM (KALADY later) THE KRISHNA TEMPLE , KAVIL BHADRAKALI AMMA , SREE KARTHYAYANI TEMPLE AT MANICKAMANGALAM , 10 NAMBUDIRI ILLAMS AMBALAVASI AND OTHER SEVAKA SOCIETY FOR THE TEMPLE AND FAMILIES

788
SANKARA WAS BORN TO SIVASARMAN NAMBUDIRI AND ARYADEVI ANTHERJANAM AS BLESSING OF LORD VADAKKUMNAATHAN TRISSIVAPEROOR

790
FOR THE AGED PARENTS WHO CONTINUED TO VISIT VADAKKUMNATHAN WITH THE CHILD SANKARA, TRAVELLING 55 KMS. TO THRISSIVAPEROOR BECAME DIFFICULT. TO RESOLVE THE DIFFICULTIES OF HIS DEVOTEES LORD SIVA OF VADAKKUMNATHAN GAVE DARSHAN IN DREAM AND OFFERED TO APPEAR AS A DANCING WHITE DEER (VELLA MAAN THULLI) AND TO LEAD TO A PLACE NEARBY WHEREAT THE DEVOTEES CAN HAVE DARSHAN OF VADAKKUMNATHAN. NEXT DAY A WHITE DEER AS OFFERED LED THEM TILL NEAR BY MATTOR HILL TOP . SIVA ALLOWS SIVASARMAN TO INSTALL HIM AT THE SPOT AS DEITY THERE UPON KNOWN AS THIRU VELLAMAAN THULLI

792
SANKARA WAS DEPUTED BY HIS FATHER THE PREIST OF KARTHYAYANI TEMPLE TO OFFER MILK TO DEITY . LITTLE SANKARA CRIED BEFORE THE DEVI TO SEE SHE REALLY ACCEPTED HIS OFFERING AND DEVI DRANK THE MILK. SIVASARMAN ALSO HAD BEEN THE PRIEST OF MANJAPRA KARPPILLY KAVU SIVAN TEMPLE

 793
SANKARA EXCELLS IN LEARNING LIKE GETTING CONCIOUS FROM SLEEP, COMPLEATS LEARNING ALL VEDAS AND PURANAS AND SUCH SYSTEMIC FORMAL EDUCATION. SIVASARMAN NAMBUDIRI ATTAINS SAYOOJYA AT THE LOTUS FEETS OF HIS ANCESTRIAL DEITY KRISHNA LEAVING HIS WIDOW ARYADEVI ANTHERJANAM AND CHILD SANKARA.

794
SANKARA AS VADU GOES FOR BHIKSHA TO A MATERNAL ILLOM WHEREAT THE ANTHERJANAM HAD NOTHING BUT AN AMLAKA PHAL TO GIVE. KARUNA OF SANKARA BECAME ' THE KANAKA DHARA STHAVAM STOTRAM TO LAKSHMI PRAYING HER ALL THROUGH AS WIFE OF HIS KRISHNA , RESULTING IN SHOWER OF GOLDEN AMLAKAS IN THE HOUSE. SIMILER GESTURE OF KINDNESS MADE ' AKAVOOR MANA TAKE OVER RUDE KUTTAMANA AND BECOME RICH. NAYATHODU DEITY SIVAN WAS PRAYED BY SANKARA AS VISHNU WHICH BECAME SANKARANARAYANAN .

795
FOR CONVENIENCE OF ROUTINE RIVER BATH OF HIS AGED MOTHER WHEN BLESSINGS OF HIS KRISHNA THAT RIVER WILL FLOW IN THE DIRECTION WHERE SANAKARA MARKS WITH HIS FEET (KALADY) WORKED,POORNA GOT REROUTED. THIS PLACE KNOWN 'SASALAM'THEN ON WAS CALLED KALADY(for FEET in Malayalam). BLESSED KRISHNA BECAME'THRI KALADY APPAN '(LORD OF KALADY) AND THE GHAT WHERIN THRIKALADY APPAN HAD HIS 1st AARAATU BY SANKARA IN NEW COURSE BECAME HIS AARAATTU KADAVU. ON THAT THIRUVONAM STAR OF TULAM KRISHNA WAS REINSTALLED TO THE PRESENT HOLY SHRINE.

He marked the occasion by reciting his famous Atchutha ashtakam

796
SANKARA GETS RELEASED FROM THE CROCODILE CATCH OF MAMATHA BANDHAN TO SANYASA. BY HIS BELOVED MOTHER UPON WHICH HE ASSURES IN TURN THAT HE CANNOT SACRIFICE HIS DUTY TO HER. SNAYASAM COULD ONLY BE THAT OF RIGHTS AND LEFT KALADY TO REALIZE HIMSELF.

804
SREE SANKARA REALIZED HIMSELF, DONE PRASTHNA TRAYAM BHASHYAM,

DEPARTED THE KNOWLEDGE TO SELECTED FOUR SHISHYAS RAISED THEM EQUAL TO HIMSELF AS JAGADGURU SHANKARACHARYAS,

INSTITUTED FOUR EQUI DISTANT MUTTS EQUI DISTANTFROM THE NERVE CENTRE OF INDIA AT SUCH PIOUS LOCATIONS LIKE BADARI PURI DWARAKA AND SRINGERI THE FIRST AND FOREMOST AMONG ALL,

IN NONE OF THIS MUTTS HE ASSUMED POWER AS CHIEF THAT POORNA CONTINUED FLOWING INSTALLING TEMPLES AT PLACES LIKE BADARI, KANCHI, MOOKAMBIKA AND A LOT INCLUDING HIS VERY DIVINE SARADAMBAL AT SRI SRINGERI

819
JAGADGURU FROM THE THROWN OF OMNI-KNOWLEDGE FLEW BACK TO THE DEATH BED OF HIS MOTHER AT KALADY AS HER SANKARA. SHE TOO WAS GIVEN SAYOOJYA IN HER DEAR THRI KALADY APPAN -KRISHNAN, WITH SANKARA RECITING VISHNU BHUJANGAM AND ATCHUTHA ASHTAKAM. WITH THE HELP & COOPERATION OF JUST 2 OUT OF 10 ILLOMS OF KALADY, HE DULY CREMATED HIS BELOVED MOTHERS BODY. THEN APARA KRIYAS WERE DONE IN NEARBY GHAT IN POORNA. THE REMAINS WHERE PLACED BELOW 'UTHAMA VRIKSHAM AND KAPPILLY NAMBUDIRIS CONTINUED DAILY 'DEEPAM ' WITH ALL SUCH SMRUTHI LAND AREA MARKED IN NAME OF KAPPILLY NAMBUDIRI. ONE CAN SEE THE BLACK STONE LAMP DONATED FOR CONVENIENCE OF DAILY LAMP, MARKED ' THRI THEKKE MADHOM VAKA' (BY THEKKE MADHOM) WITH MUDRA OF MUTT ENGRAVED '.

SANKARA LEAVES HIS KALADY, ENTRUSTING THALAETTUM PILLY (Head lifting) MANA RENAMED ON LIFTING HEAD SIDE OF MOTHERS BODY TO PYRE AND TO KAPPILLY MANA RENAMED AS SUCH ON LIFTING KAL (Leg) PART TO PYRE, WHO ARE THE ONLY ONES SURVIVED WITH REST IN 10 ILLOMS EXTINCT.SANKARA WEPT LIKE A LITTLE CHILD UNDER THE BANIAN TREE BEFORE HIS KAVIL BHADRAKALI FOR THE WHOLE NIGHT AND LEFT KALADY.
THESE FAMILIES, NAMES & HISTORY AND THE REAL FACTS IN HOLY KALADY PROVES THE WRITERS CLAIMING TO BE BASED ON MADHVA VIDYARANYA AND HIS SCHOOL FOLLOWERS ASSIGNING SANKARA AS A BUTCHER THAT TOO OF HIS OWN MOTHERS BODY, (PERHAPS MADE INNOCENTLY),AND THAT HE CURSED IN TOTAL THE PEOPLE OF KALADY AND THE PLACE AS TOTALLY WRONG AND IGNORANT IN THIS ASPECT

 820
JAGADGURU PARAMAHAMSA PARIVRAJAKA SUGRAHITHA NAAMA SANKARACHAYA TOO ATTAINS SAYOOJYAM RECITING 'KESHAADI PAADA STHOTHRAM' OF HIS KULA DEVA YADUPATHY SREE KRISHNAN; MAY BE AT KEDARAM;AT DAKSHINA KEDARAM TRISSUR HIS MOOLA STHAN; OR NOT KNOWN

 825
KOLLA VARSHAM STARTED IN KERALA IN RECOGNITION AND RESPECTS OF JAGADGURU WHICH NO OTHER INDIAN STATE EVER DONE, STARTED 4 MUTTS OF 4 SANKARA DESCIPLES AT TRICHUR NEAR ACHARYAS MOOLA STHANAM TRISSUR VADAKKUMNAATHAN VADAKKE, NADUVIL, TRIKAIKKATTU, THEKKE MUTTS

 900
THEKKEMADHOM SWAMIYAAR HONOURED WITH ARCHANA RIGHTS FOR THRI KALADY APPAN AND PALACE PROVIDED IN LAND IN THE NAME OF KAPPILLY NAMBUDIRI

 1797
KALADY RECOGNISED BY BALRAMA VARMA AS ' SANKARA SANKETHAM ' WITHIN WHICH ONLY HIGH CAST HINDUS ONLY WERE PERMITTED TO DEAL PROPERY & LIVE IN, RAJABHOGAM (tax) NAMED MUPPARA & ETTIL ONNU BEQUEATHED TO THEKKE MADHOM, RAJAH CANNOT ENTER WITH ARMS AND GUARD; POSITION AKIN TO STATE OF SRI SRINGERI

 1864 To 1898
LEGENDARY LAW FIGHT BY X' TIANS FOR CHURCH NEAR SANKARA SANKETHAM IN KALADY, EVEN BRITISH CROWN RECOGNISES KALADY AS SANKARA SANKETHAM, THE CHURCH CONSECRATED FINALLY ON 1898 NOV 14 FR. S. POONOLI GIVES A TRUE INSIGHT OF KALADY 150 YRS BACK WITH NAMES & ADDRESS OF INMATES IN HIS MODAL BOOK.

1905
AUTHORITIES DECIDES TO START VEG& NON VEG MARKET JUST NEXT TO BHADRAKALI KAVU AT KALADY CENTRE AND KALADY DEVASWOM SHIFTS KAVU TO PRESENT SPOT

1910
KALADY RECOGNISED BY SREE SRINGERI SARADA PEETHAM AS ' SANKARA BIRTH PLACE AT THE INSTENCE OF HIS HOLINESSES 33RD PONTIFF JAGADGURU SIVABHINAVA NARASIMHA BHARATHI AN EXCEPTIONALLY DIVINE AND SACRED PERSONALITY AND AT HIS HOLOINESSES INSTRUCTION TRAVANCORE HIGHNESS DONATED ARAYAMBA SAMADHI HITHERTO MAINTANED WITH ENCLOSED PROTECTION WALL AND THE ADJACENT HOLY GHAT WHERIN THE APARA KRIYA FOR MOTHER WAS DONE BY SANKARA AND A LAND AREA MEASURING AROUND 25 ACRES IN THE NAME OF KAPPILLY NAMUDIRI AND UNDER -THEN SANKETHAM POSSESSION OF THEKKEMADHOM -ACQUIRED AND HANDED OVER TO SREE SREE SRINGERI SARADA PEETHAM . TEMPLES OF DIVINE SARADA DEVI AND SHANKARACHARYA IN SIVA DAKSHINA MOORTHY FORM IN IN TWO BEAUTIFUL SHRINES ON TWO SIDES OF ARYAMBA SAMAADHY WERE BUILT AND CONSECRATED ON 1910 . THIS STARTED A NEW ERA IN KALADY WITH MORE OF SRINGERI DEVOTEES TURNING IN WITH RELATED FAME AND PROGRESS USHERING IN.

1936
SELFLESS SWAMI AGAMANANDAJI STARTED OFF WITH NO INSTITUTIONAL AND GOVT. SUPPORT; JUST RESPECTS AND HELP OF LOCAL PERSONS LIKE PARAYATHU MENON. AND STARTED OFF A NEW ASHRAM A WING OF SREE RAMA KRISHNA MISSION. HE INITIATED A BRIDGE , A SCHOOL A COLLEGE WHICH NOW RUN BY SREE SRINGERI MUTT AND A LOT MANY INSTITUTIONS TO DEVELOP THE LAND KALADY. IN 1976 THE BEAUTIFUL MAGNIFICIANT INERNATIONAL RAMAKRISHNA TEMPLE WAS INSTALLED UNDER DIRECTIONS OF SWAMI GANANDAJI WHO ALSO STARTED 1ST TRIBAL HOSTEL IN KERALA AT KALADY

1978
KANCHI ' STOOPAM' 9 STORIED TOWER SHORTLY RECOGNISED AS THE IDENTITY HALL MARK OF KALADY ALL AROUND STARTED

1993
ON SPECIAL INTERESTS OF SRINGERI ADVENT OF SREE SANKARACHARYA SANSKRIT UNIVERSITY

 

Teachings

SANKARA TAUGHT WHAT VEDA UPANISHADS TOLD US ' BRAHMA
SATHYA JAGATH MIDHYA JEEVO BRAHMAIVA NA PARA' MEANING ' BRAHMA IS THE TRUTH THE
WORLD IS UNTRUE ; SOUL IS NOTHING BUT BRAHMA' QUINTESSENCE OF ALL SCRIPTURES

HE ADVOCATED SRUTHI , BUT
ADVICED TO ACCEPT WITH YUKTHI , AND TO BE CHECKED OUT FURTHER WITH ' REAL
EXPERIENCE OF OWN' IF SRUTHI DO NOT TALLY WITH ANUBHAVAM - OWN EXPERINCE AND
YUKTHI , DO NOT HESITATE TO NEGLECT SRUTHI. THIS MADE SANKARA ACHARYA

DIFFERENT FROM HIS PREDICESSORS AND EVEN FOLLOWERS