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Commentary on the Brahmasūtras
ब्रह्मसूत्रभाष्य (Brahmasūtrabhāṣya / Śārīrakamīmāṃsābhāṣya)
Śaṅkara's major work and one of the great texts of Sanskrit philosophy. It comments on Bādarāyaṇa's aphorisms, which summarise the teaching of the Upaniṣads, and reads them as affirming the identity of ātman and brahman. It opens with the famous "preamble on superimposition" (adhyāsabhāṣya), which defines ignorance as the confusion of subject and object, and argues at length against Sāṃkhya, Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika, the Buddhist and Jaina schools and the ritualism of Mīmāṃsā. It became the base text of the Bhāmatī and Vivaraṇa schools.
Authorship note
Authorship accepted without dispute by scholarship (Hacker, Mayeda, Potter): it is the yardstick against which all other attributions are judged.
Editions and translations
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English
Adi Shankara
Brahma-Sūtra-Bhāṣya of Śrī Śaṅkarācārya
The Conscious LibraryBrahma-Sūtra-Bhāṣya of Śrī Śaṅkarācārya
Advaita Ashrama, 2000
Translation: Swami Gambhirananda
ISBN 9788175051058
Primera edición 1965; reed. 1977 (ISBN 9780702500770)
The Vedânta-Sûtras with the Commentary by Śaṅkarâkârya (SBE 34 y 38)
Motilal Banarsidass, 1988
Translation: George Thibaut
ISBN 8120801393
Primera edición Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1890–1896 (dominio público)
Deutsch
Adi Shankara
Die Sûtra's des Vedânta, oder die Çârîraka-Mîmâṅsâ des Bâdarâyaṇa nebst dem vollständigen Commentare des Çaṅkara
The Conscious LibraryDie Sûtra's des Vedânta, oder die Çârîraka-Mîmâṅsâ des Bâdarâyaṇa nebst dem vollständigen Commentare des Çaṅkara
F. A. Brockhaus, 1887
Translation: Paul Deussen
Reimpresión Georg Olms, 1982 (ISBN 9783487013695)
Español
Adi Shankara
Brahma-sūtras con los comentarios advaita de Śaṅkara
The Conscious LibraryBrahma-sūtras con los comentarios advaita de Śaṅkara
Editorial Trotta, 2000
Translation: Consuelo Martín
ISBN 9788481643855
No figura en el catálogo vigente de Trotta consultado en 2026
Other works by Adi Shankara
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- Commentaries on the principal Upaniṣads
- Commentary on the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad
- Commentary on the Chāndogya Upaniṣad
- Commentary on the Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad and Gauḍapāda's Kārikā
- Upadeśasāhasrī (A Thousand Teachings)
- Vivekacūḍāmaṇi (The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination)
- Ātmabodha (Self-Knowledge)
- Aparokṣānubhūti (Direct Experience)
- Bhaja Govindam (Mohamudgara)
- Nirvāṇaṣaṭkam (Six Verses on Nirvāṇa)
- Saundaryalaharī (Flood of Beauty)
- Hymn to Dakṣiṇāmūrti
- Sub-commentary on the Yogasūtras
- Commentary on the Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad
- Commentary on the Viṣṇusahasranāma
- Pañcīkaraṇa (The Quintuplication of the Elements)
- Vākyavṛtti (Exposition of the Great Saying)
- Method of Teaching Self-Knowledge
- Laghuvākyavṛtti (Short Exposition of the Great Saying)
- Discrimination between the Seer and the Seen
- Tattvabodha (Knowledge of Truth)
- Śataślokī (A Hundred Verses)
- Svātmanirūpaṇa (Definition of One's Own Self)
- Śivānandalaharī (Wave of Śiva's Bliss)
- Sādhana Pañcakam (Five Verses on Practice)
- Commentary on the Sanatsujātīya
- Prapañcasāra Tantra (The Essence of Manifestation)
- Daśaślokī (Ten Verses)
- Kanakadhārā Stotra (Hymn of the Golden Shower)
- Commentary on the Nṛsiṃhapūrvatāpanī Upaniṣad
- Commentary on the Lalitātriśatī (The Three Hundred Names of Lalitā)
- Prabodhasudhākara (Moon of the Nectar of Awakening)
Sources
- Śaṅkarācārya. Brahma-Sūtra-Bhāṣya of Śrī Śaṅkarācārya. Trad. Swami Gambhirananda. Calcuta: Advaita Ashrama, 1965 (reed. 1977, ISBN 9780702500770; 2000, ISBN 9788175051058).
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