Lalita Pandit (b. 1950) is a poet and professor of English at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse. Her books include Criticism and Lacan: Essays and Dialogue on Language, Structure, and the Unconscious (1990), Literary India: Comparative Studies in Aesthetics, Colonialism, and Culture (1995) and Comparative Poetics: Non-Western Traditions of Literary Theory (1996).
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Her poetry on the Web (http://www.koausa.org/Poets/LalitaPandit.html)
It was during these years that Sankara wrote the famous commentaries on Vyasa's Brahmasutras, the principle Upanishads and the Bhagavad-Geeta.
Besides the bashyas on Vishnusahasranama and the Lalita Trisatistotra are also said to have been written by him during his long stay at Kasi.
Pandit Mahamahopadhyaya Gopinath Kaviraj has stated that the temple of Kamakshi at Kanchi is famous and in that temple there is the stone icon of Sankara and that is the lace where he attained Siddhi.