Shankaracharya established four major मठ (monasteries) in the four corners of India: Sringeri in Karnataka, Dwarka in Gujarat, Puri in Odisha, and Jyotirmath (Badrinath) in Uttarakhand, to propagate his philosophy.
The great religious thinker and philosopher Shankaracharya was born in
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