A name of Siva; also short for Sankaracharya.

Auspicious. A name of Siva in his creative character or as chief the Rudras

The most influential teacher of the impersonal Advaita philosophy in Kali-yuga. According to the Padma Purana, he is an incarnation of Lord Siva sent to earth by Krishna to bewilder the atheistic with distortions of the teachings of Vedanta.