There was a long line of teachers of Vedanta before Shankara, and after such as Mandan Mishra, who regarded Mimamsa and Vedanta as forming a single system and advocated the combination of action and knowledge known as "Karma-Jnana-samuchchaya-vada".
There was a long line of teachers of Vedanta before Shankara. One of the last among them was Mandan Mishra who regarded Mimamsa and Vedanta as forming a single system and advocated the combination of action and knowledge known as "Karma-Jnana-samuchchaya-vada".