Birth at Kalady
· Kalady, Ernakulam district, Kerala, India
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain in India because its term of copyright has expired. · file According to the oldest hagiographies summarized by the canonical article, Shankara was born at Kalady in present-day Kerala. This is the principal traditional birthplace claim, although the article also reports an alternative Chidambaram tradition. The article dates his birth c. 700 CE; 700 is used as the supported year-level anchor. The birthplace claim is hagiographical, and the same article notes an alternative Chidambaram birth tradition.
