Adi Shankara
Daśaślokī (Ten Verses)
Traditional attribution
Daśaślokī (Ten Verses)
दशश्लोकी

Ten verses that deny one after another every identification —elements, senses, castes, stages of life, practices— and close with the refrain “I am Śiva, the one that remains”. Brief and easy to memorise, it is one of the most quoted summaries of the Advaita way of negation.
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Authorship note
Traditionally ascribed to Śaṅkara and included in the Vani Vilas edition of his complete works (a29); modern scholarship, since Hacker and Mayeda, accepts as authentic only the major commentaries and the Upadeśasāhasrī, so this work is recorded as attributed. Madhusūdana Sarasvatī (16th century) commented on it as Śaṅkara’s in his Siddhāntabindu. Spanish title descriptive.
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English
Adi Shankara
Vedānta in Ten Verses (Daśaślokī) of Śaṅkarācārya
The Conscious LibraryVedānta in Ten Verses (Daśaślokī) of Śaṅkarācārya
Śaṅkara Vihār, Madrás, 1965
Translation: T. M. P. Mahadevan y N. Veezhinathan
Registro de Open Library OL62265675M.
Other works by Adi Shankara
- Commentary on the Brahmasūtras · 800
- Commentary on the Bhagavadgītā · 800
- 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)
- 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
- Open Library: Prapanchasāra Tantra. Calcuta: Sanskrit Press Depository, 1914 (serie Tantrik Texts dirigida por Arthur Avalon, seudónimo de Sir John Woodroffe), registro OL59251172M; Vedānta in ten verses (Daśaślokī) of Śaṅkarācārya, ed. y trad. T. M. P. Mahadevan y N. Veezhinathan, Madrás: Śaṅkara Vihār, 1965 (OL62265675M); Śrī Kanakadhārā stotram, Chennai: Śrī Tayā Papḷikēṣan, 1977 (OL47937733M).
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