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Banks of the Narmadā (Omkareshwar region)

A site on the banks of the Narmadā River in the Omkareshwar region of Madhya Pradesh, central India. Tradition holds that the young Ādi Śaṅkara met his teacher Govinda Bhagavatpāda in a riverside cave here and was initiated into renunciation.

Teachers who lived here