gopurams

Updated: May 11, 2025

This is not the land of giant gopurams and multitudinous sculpture, but of lives dedicated to the acquisition of traditional learning and the daily performance of complicated but inconspicuous rites. The accounts of Śankara's life are little but a collection of legends, in which, however, the following facts stand out.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2