Adi Shankara
Saundaryalaharī (Flood of Beauty)
Traditional attribution
Saundaryalaharī (Flood of Beauty)
सौन्दर्यलहरी (Saundaryalaharī)
One hundred verses to Tripurasundarī, the first part (Ānandalaharī) carrying tantric content of the Śrīvidyā school and the second describing the Goddess from foot to head. Its attribution shows how Śaṅkara's name became associated with Śākta devotion in the southern monasteries.
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Authorship note
A tantric hymn to the Goddess traditionally ascribed to him; W. Norman Brown (1958) and most scholars consider it later and foreign to the author of the commentaries.
Editions and translations
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English
Adi Shankara
The Saundaryalaharī or Flood of Beauty (Harvard Oriental Series 43)
The Conscious LibraryThe Saundaryalaharī or Flood of Beauty (Harvard Oriental Series 43)
Harvard University Press, 1958
Translation: W. Norman Brown
ISBN 9780674432642
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)
- 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
- Brown, W. Norman (ed. y trad.). The Saundaryalaharī or Flood of Beauty, Traditionally Ascribed to Śaṅkarācārya. Harvard Oriental Series 43. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press, 1958.
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