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Aṣṭāvakra Gītā (The Song of Aṣṭāvakra)
अष्टावक्रगीता (Aṣṭāvakragītā), también अष्टावक्रसंहिता (Aṣṭāvakrasaṃhitā)
A Sanskrit poem of some three hundred verses in twenty chapters, cast as a dialogue between King Janaka of Mithilā and Aṣṭāvakra. After the king's opening questions on knowledge, liberation and dispassion, the teacher asserts that the self is the conscious witness, formless and actionless, and that bondage is merely a mistaken identification with body and mind. Janaka answers with songs of wonder at his own nature, and the text culminates in a long chapter (XVIII) on the one liberated while living. It dispenses with rites, duties and stages of life, and even regards the practice of concentration itself as bondage.
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Authorship note
Ascribed by tradition to Aṣṭāvakra; the real author is unknown. No ancient text identifies the teacher of the poem with the boy of the Mahābhārata. Brockington (foreword to Byrom, 1990) places it in the eighth or the fourteenth century, in post-Śaṅkara Advaita; Mukerjee (1971) proposed the fifth to fourth centuries BCE. The year given here is only indicative.
Editions and translations
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English
Ashtavakra
Ashtavakra Gita
The Conscious LibraryAshtavakra Gita
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018
Translation: John Richards
ISBN 9781983455742
Traducción cedida por su autor al dominio público en 1994; texto también en Wikisource.
Ashtavakra Gita
The Art of Living / Diamond Books, 2010
ISBN 9789380592831
Comentario de Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
The Heart of Awareness: A Translation of the Ashtavakra Gita
Shambhala, Boston, 1990
Translation: Thomas Byrom
ISBN 9780877735748
Prólogo de J. L. Brockington. Reedición de bolsillo (Shambhala Dragon Editions, 2001): ISBN 9781570628979.
Ashtavakra
Ashtavakra Gita
The Conscious LibraryAshtavakra Gita
Shanti Sadan, Londres, 1949
Translation: Hari Prasad Shastri
Sin ISBN en la edición original.
Ashtavakra
Aṣṭāvakra Saṃhitā
The Conscious LibraryAṣṭāvakra Saṃhitā
Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati, 1940
Translation: Swami Nityaswarupananda
ISBN 9788185301136
ISBN de una reimpresión según Open Library. Sri Ramanasramam publicó en 2001 una edición especial con el texto sánscrito en la caligrafía de Ramana Maharshi (código del distribuidor 8188018570, no comprobado en catálogo).
Ashtavakra
The Ashtavakra Gita: A Treatise on Adwaita Philosophy
The Conscious LibraryThe Ashtavakra Gita: A Treatise on Adwaita Philosophy
Vaishya Hitkari, Meerut (impr. Liddell's Printing Works, Allahabad), 1904
Translation: Lala Baij Nath
Primera traducción inglesa conocida; dominio público.
Italiano
Ashtavakra
Asht'avakragìtà o il canto di Asht'àvakra
The Conscious LibraryAsht'avakragìtà o il canto di Asht'àvakra
Sonzogno, Milán, 1912
Translation: Silvio Pagani (versificación de la prosa de Carlo Giussani)
Dominio público.
Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्
Ashtavakra
Ashtavakra Gita (sánscrito con comentario en hindi)
The Conscious LibraryAshtavakra Gita (sánscrito con comentario en hindi)
Lakshmi Venkateshvar Press (Ganga Vishnu Shri Krishna Das), Bombay, 1925
Escaneo en Internet Archive (ciwX_ashtavaka-gita-of-ashtavakra-muni-1925-lakshmi-venkateshvar-chapkhan-mumbai).
Ashtavakra
अष्टावक्रगीता (texto sánscrito)
The Conscious Libraryअष्टावक्रगीता (texto sánscrito)
Wikisource en sánscrito
Texto completo en veinte capítulos, dominio público.
Deutsch
Ashtavakra
Die Aṣṭāvakra-Gītā
The Conscious LibraryDie Aṣṭāvakra-Gītā
Akademie-Verlag, Berlín, 1967
Translation: Richard Hauschild
ISBN 9783112742679
Edición crítica y traducción; el ISBN corresponde a la reimpresión de De Gruyter.
Français
Astavakra gîtâ, suivi de L'Avadhuta gîtâ
Éditions du Rocher, Mónaco, 1979
Translation: Alexandra David-Néel
ISBN 2268000494
Reedición de 1994: ISBN 9782268016900.
Les Paroles du Huit-fois-difforme: dialogue sur la réalité
Éditions de l'Éclat, 1996
Translation: Alain Porte
ISBN 9782841620098
Español
Ashtavakra Gita
José J. de Olañeta, Palma de Mallorca, 2003
ISBN 9788497162982
Versión española de la traducción inglesa de Hari Prasad Shastri; traductor al español no identificado en el catálogo.
Astavakra Gita · Avadhuta Gita
Luis Cárcamo, Editor, Madrid, 2014
Translation: Alexandra David-Néel (versión francesa)
ISBN 9788485316878
Versión española de las traducciones francesas de David-Néel, en un solo volumen con la Avadhūta Gītā.
Ashtavakra Gita: nueva traducción del original
Lulu Press, 2020
Translation: J. Carte
ISBN 9781716299155
हिन्दी
Ashtavakra Mahageeta, bhāg 1
Diamond Books, Nueva Delhi, 2021
ISBN 9788189605773
Discursos de Osho sobre el texto, en hindi; serie en varios volúmenes (bhāg 2: ISBN 9788189605780).
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Sources
- अष्टावक्रगीता (Aṣṭāvakragītā), texto sánscrito completo en veinte capítulos, Wikisource en sánscrito.
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