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Revision as of 14:26, 21 February 2003 by Venkkatesh (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Bhagwadpada Acharya Sankara was not only a great thinker and the noblest of Advaitin philosophers, but he was essentially an inspired champion of Hinduism and one of the most vigorous missionaries in India. Such a powerful leader was needed at the time when Hinduism had been almost smothered within the enticing entanglements of the Buddhistic philosophy and, consequently, the decadent Hindu society had come to be broken up and disunited into numberless sects and denominations, each championing a different viewpoint and mutually quarelling in endless argumentations. Each pundit, as it were, had his own followers, his own philosophy, his own interpretation. Each one was a vehement and powerful opponent of all other views. This intellectual disintegration, especially in the scriptural field, was never before so serious and so dangerously calamitous as in the times of Sankara.