Commentaries on The Gita start appearing from approximately the time Islam entered India. One of the world’s oldest mosques was built on the Malabar coast in the seventh century, and Adi Shankara, who wrote the first elaborate commentary on The Gita and made it an important scripture for Vedanta, was also born in the Malabar coast region in the eighth century. A relationship cannot be denied. Whether this was pure coincidence or the cause for the resurgence of The Gita remains a matter of speculation, mired in contemporary politics.
