A Wikipedia article on Adi Shankara, the eighth century Indian philosopher and monk credited with systematizing Advaita Vedanta and establishing four monastic centers across India. Its own infobox uses a Raja Ravi Varma painting as Shankara's lead portrait, captioned "Painting of Adi Shankara, exponent of Advaita Vedanta with his disciples by Raja Ravi Varma," independently agreeing with the holding foundation's own record on the artist and the composition's subject. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here only to confirm that this exact painting is independently treated as Adi Shankara's standard portrait, agreeing on artist and subject with the holding foundation's own record. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Shankara
Source Typeencyclopedia
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Source Adi Shankara (Wikipedia)
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This source backs 7 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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