Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.1166

c9.1166

While Śaṅkara was writing books at Muktimaṇḍapa at Maṇikarṇikā Ghat in Kāśī Vyāsa came there one day in the guise of an old man, and there ensued a lengthy discussion between the two. Padmapāda recognised Vyāsa in the old man and told him and Śaṅkara thus: "How would there be peace and happiness in the world, if Śaṅkara, the incarnation of Śiva and Vedavyāsa, the incarnation of Viṣṇu quarrelled with each other?" As soon as his identity was revealed thus, Vyāsa admitted that Śaṅkara's Bhāṣya on the Brahmasūtras was correct and blessed him to live for thirtytwo, instead of sixteen years.