Vaj: > "Even the present acarya of the disputed Kanchi > vidyapith, Swami Jayendra Saraswati, names > Swarupananda as the proper claimant..." > There is not one shred of evidence that the Adi Shankara founded a fifth matha to oversee all the other four mathas. If he had done so, he would have said so, would he not?
Or, one of his famous desciples would have said so, would they not? Or, at least ONE historian or archaeologist would say so, would they not? Since, the Adi Shankara did not say that he founded a fifth matha, and since none of the Adi's desciples say that the he founded a fifth matha, and since NO historian or archaeologist has ever maintained that the Adi Shankara founded a fifth matha, a reasonble person might conclude that the Adi did not found a fifth matha, would he not? And, since the Shankaracharya of Sringeri and the Shankaracharya of Dwarka both deny that the Kanchi matha is an Amnya Matha, even a bhogi such as yourself would reasonably conclude that the Adi Shankara did not found a fifth matha to oversee all the rest, would he not? And, considering that the Kanchi math seer is in jail on murder charges, a reasonable person would not even probably bring the subject up, would he? 'The Truth about the Kumbhakonam Math' by Sri R. Krishnaswamy Aiyar and Sri K. R. Venkatraman, Sri Ramakrishna Press, Madurai, 1977. 'Kanchi Kamakoti Math - a Myth' by Sri Varanasi Raj Gopal Sarma, Ganga Tunga Prakashan, Varanasi, 1987.
