The History of Indian Literature c8.115

c8.115

³⁸ Śaṃkara's date has not, unfortunately, been more accurately determined as yet. He passes at the same time for a zealous adversary of the Buddhists, and is therefore called a Śaiva, or follower of Śiva. In his works, however, he appears as a worshipper of Vásudeva, whom he puts forward as the real incarnation or representative of *brahman*.