Padmapāda
750 CE
c. 8th c. CE (direct disciple of Śaṅkara), disputed
Padmapāda (traditionally the disciple originally named Sanandana) was among Śaṅkara's foremost pupils. His Pañcapādikā, a commentary on the first portion of Śaṅkara's Brahma-sūtra-bhāṣya, became the seed of the Vivaraṇa school of post-Śaṅkara Advaita (so named from Prakāśātman's later Pañcapādikā-vivaraṇa), one of the two great interpretive lineages alongside Sureśvara's Vārttika line and Vācaspati's Bhāmatī line. Hagiography surrounds his name (the 'lotus-feet' story), but his philosophical role as a founder of the Vivaraṇa tradition is well attested. His dates are placed in the 8th century.
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Padmapāda’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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- Nikephoros I· 760 CE–811 CE
- Harun al-Rashid· 763 CE–809 CE
- Charlemagne· 747 CE–814 CE
- Irene of Athens· 752 CE–803 CE
- Hisham I· 757 CE–796 CE
- al-Hadi· 764 CE–786 CE
- Emperor Kanmu· 737 CE–806 CE
- al-Amin· 787 CE–813 CE
- Jayavarman II· 770 CE–835 CE
- al-Mahdi· 744 CE–785 CE
- K'ak' Tiliw Chan Yopaat (Cauac Sky)· –785 CE
- Yaxun Bahlam IV (Bird Jaguar IV)· 709 CE–
- Rurik· –879 CE
- Emperor Xuanzong of Tang· 685 CE–762 CE
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