Adi Shankaracharya & Kootaneeti
All religious figures have some historical identity that is diametrically opposite to their religious one. There need not be any doubt that Adi Shankaracharya was a historical figure. After taking the pledge of Sanyasa at the tender age of 13, he brought down the world’s oldest known proselytizing religion, which used religion and politics to meet its end in less than three decades – Buddhism. It is important to note that Buddhism in all its hues and forms started over 900 years after the death of Buddha, a.k.a. Siddhartha Gautama, and has no apparent connection to him. Like Islam
