Pre-sannyAsa name of Adi Shankaracharya?

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Namaste

 

In the entire Indian tradition, all SannyAsis take up (or

are given) a new name at the time of SannyAsa. What was the

pre-sannyAsa name of Adi Shankaracharya? If the name given

to him by his parents was 'Shankara', as all accounts seem

to say, then, was there no change of name at the time of

formal initiation into SannyAsa by his guru

Govinda-bhagavat-pAda?

 

PraNAms to all students of Adi Shankaracharya.

profvk

 

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[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

Shankara Digvijaya by Sw. Vidyaranya does not mention change

of name. Is it likely that the tradition was introduced by Shankara

himself when he organized the Sanyasa order under the 'dasha-nAmI'

sampradaya? The Sanyasa upanishads do not mention change of name as a

part of the ritual. Shankara gave new names to his own disciples.

 

 

Regards,

 

Sunder

 

 

advaitin, "V. Krishnamurthy" <profvk> wrote:

> Namaste

>

> In the entire Indian tradition, all SannyAsis take up (or

> are given) a new name at the time of SannyAsa. What was the

> pre-sannyAsa name of Adi Shankaracharya? If the name given

> to him by his parents was 'Shankara', as all accounts seem

> to say, then, was there no change of name at the time of

> formal initiation into SannyAsa by his guru

> Govinda-bhagavat-pAda?

>

> PraNAms to all students of Adi Shankaracharya.

> profvk

>

> =====

> Prof. V. Krishnamurthy

> My website on Science and Spirituality is

http://www.geocities.com/profvk/

> You can access my book on Gems from the Ocean of Hindu Thought

Vision and Practice, and my father R. Visvanatha Sastri's manuscripts

from the site.

> Also see my webpages on Live Happily, the Gita Way at

http://www.geocities.com/profvk/gohitvip/contentsbeach11.html