Traditional attribution · Essential works
Brahmasūtras (Aphorisms on Brahman)
ब्रह्मसूत्र (Brahmasūtra), también वेदान्तसूत्र
Some 555 aphorisms in four books systematising the teaching of the Upaniṣads on Brahman: its nature, the refutation of other schools (Sāṃkhya, Buddhists, Jains), the means of realisation and the fruit of liberation. Their concision makes them intelligible only with a commentary, and each school of Vedānta —Śaṅkara, Rāmānuja, Madhva— founded its doctrine on its own.
Authorship note
Ascribed to Bādarāyaṇa, whom later Vedāntic tradition identifies with Vyāsa. Scholarship distinguishes the two; Nakamura dates the final redaction to around 400–450, though it gathers earlier material.
Editions and translations
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English
Vyasa
Brahma-Sūtra-Bhāṣya of Śrī Śaṅkarācārya
The Conscious LibraryBrahma-Sūtra-Bhāṣya of Śrī Śaṅkarācārya
Advaita Ashrama, 2000
Translation: Swami Gambhirananda
ISBN 9788175051058
The Vedânta-Sûtras with the Commentary by Śaṅkarâkârya (SBE 34 y 38)
Motilal Banarsidass, 1988
Translation: George Thibaut
ISBN 8120801393
Primera edición Clarendon Press, 1890–1896; dominio público.
Español
Vyasa
Brahma-sūtras con los comentarios advaita de Śaṅkara
The Conscious LibraryBrahma-sūtras con los comentarios advaita de Śaṅkara
Trotta, 2000
Translation: Consuelo Martín
ISBN 9788481643855
Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्
Vyasa
ब्रह्मसूत्रम् (texto sánscrito)
The Conscious Libraryब्रह्मसूत्रम् (texto sánscrito)
Wikisource
Other works by Vyasa
- Mahābhārata · 400
- Mahābhārata I: Ādiparvan (The Book of the Beginning)
- Mahābhārata II: Sabhāparvan (The Book of the Assembly)
- Mahābhārata III: Āraṇyakaparvan (The Book of the Forest)
- Mahābhārata IV: Virāṭaparvan (The Book of Virāṭa)
- Mahābhārata V: Udyogaparvan (The Book of the Effort)
- Mahābhārata VI: Bhīṣmaparvan (The Book of Bhīṣma)
- Mahābhārata VII: Droṇaparvan (The Book of Droṇa)
- Mahābhārata VIII: Karṇaparvan (The Book of Karṇa)
- Mahābhārata IX: Śalyaparvan (The Book of Śalya)
- Mahābhārata X: Sauptikaparvan (The Book of the Night Raid)
- Mahābhārata XI: Strīparvan (The Book of the Women)
- Mahābhārata XII: Śāntiparvan (The Book of Peace)
- Mahābhārata XIII: Anuśāsanaparvan (The Book of Instruction)
- Mahābhārata XIV: Āśvamedhikaparvan (The Book of the Horse Sacrifice)
- Mahābhārata XV: Āśramavāsikaparvan (The Book of the Hermitage)
- Mahābhārata XVI: Mausalaparvan (The Book of the Clubs)
- Mahābhārata XVII: Mahāprasthānikaparvan (The Book of the Great Journey)
- Mahābhārata XVIII: Svargārohaṇaparvan (The Book of the Ascent to Heaven)
- Harivaṃśa (The Lineage of Hari)
- Bhagavad Gītā (The Song of the Lord) · 200
- The division of the Veda into four collections (traditional attribution)
- The eighteen great Purāṇas (traditional attribution) · 300
- Bhāgavata Purāṇa · 900
- Viṣṇu Purāṇa
- Devī Bhāgavata Purāṇa
- Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa
- Yogabhāṣya (Commentary on the Yogasūtras) · 325
- Vyāsa Smṛti
Sources
- Nakamura, Hajime. A History of Early Vedānta Philosophy, Part One. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1983 (sobre Bādarāyaṇa y la fecha de los Brahmasūtra).
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