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Adi Shankara

The 8th–9th-century Advaita teacher whom tradition credits with recovering the Badrinarayan image from the Tapt Kund and re-establishing the Badrinath temple; his visit to Dwarka is also memorialised.

Sources: Badrinath Temple — Wikipedia; Dwarkadhish Temple — Wikipedia · see Adi Shankara's web

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Adi Shankara devotee of

  • Surya (God) Smarta · All as one: the Smarta Panchayatana
    Traditional attribution: Shankara set the five-deity worship (Surya among them); archaeology predates him. Edge records the tradition, not a personal devotion.

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