[2] Shandilya's other Acharyas include Kaushika, Gautama Maharishi, Kaishorya Kaapya, Vatsya Vaijavap, and Kushri.
Shandilya's disciples include Kaundinya, Agnivesha, Vatsya Vamakakshayan, Vaishthapureya, and Bharadwaj.
Many Saraswat Brahmin families residing in North India claim Shandilya as their paternal ancestor.
The Ātmān is a positive entity, both great and small, infinite and infinitesimal, surely reachable after death.
He describes in a positive way the process of creation from the Ātmān, Tajjalān is the universe identified with the changeless Brahman, who is not bound by space and time, having three attributes – creator, preserver and destroyer of the universe, and that the individual self is Brahman in its essential nature.
[4] The Śāṇḍilya Vidya is part of the Agnirahasyama of the Shatapatha Upanishad, briefly described in the following two passages (SB X.vi.iii.1-2):[5]- Here, it is most comprehensively explained that the Ātmān within the body and the mind etc., is the same as the all-pervading Purusha who is the source, support, power and light of entire creation.
[6] The first formulation of Hindu idea of God found in the Shatapatha Brahmana is repeated in Sandilya Vidya.