Why Srimad Bhagavatam is not mentioned by Sri Adi Shankaracharya, Sri Yamunacharya or Sri Ramanujacharya
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1A partial answer is in this post: hinduism.stackexchange.com/questions/19746/…– Pradip GangopadhyayCommented Jan 21 at 12:34
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It is barely thousands of years old. It didn't exist during Shankara's time I guess.– user29449Commented Jan 21 at 13:49
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Sri Shankara does not generally quote from puranas. Only very rarely does he quote (from puranas like Vishnu purana).– estimatorCommented Jan 21 at 14:09
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It was because it had a lot of contradictions with Mahabharata. Therefore it has been a lot commented upon, still due to the heavy contradictions, they aren't reconciled to Mahabharata. Except for a few sects, others don't consider it at par other puranas.– user29449Commented Feb 23 at 3:47
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Remember about 400 works are attributed to Sankara...Not all are the works of Adi-Shankara
The reason is simple Sankara, Ramanujaa, etc were Vedantist.
Vedanta doesn't consider Purana as (main) Parmana, it's Vedas.
Sankara was quite strict with Vedas in his works hence he used smritis very less.
Or maybe there was no Bhagvata Puran during Sankara's era... (some say that)!!!
And Ramunja has used Vishnu puran to consider Sri Vishnu supreme.
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@SaffronVajra well i never said that he has not used the Smritis.I stated that he has used it very less..... BTW...here by smritis i mainly meant Purans as that is what we are talking about.– Singh S1Commented Feb 23 at 9:21