Gaudapada
Āgama Prakaraṇa (chapter I: the revealed tradition)
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Āgama Prakaraṇa (chapter I: the revealed tradition)
आगमप्रकरण
Twenty-nine verses interspersed with the twelve paragraphs of the Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad. It describes the ātman in waking (viśva), dreaming (taijasa) and deep sleep (prājña), and the non-dual "fourth" (turīya), which is neither cause nor effect; it reviews the current theories of creation — expansion, dream, illusion, divine will, time — and identifies the states with the sounds A, U and M of the syllable Om, whose final silence is turīya.
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Authorship note
First chapter of the Kārikā. Madhva and the Viśiṣṭādvaita tradition regarded part of its verses as revelation (śruti); Bhattacharya even proposed that the Upaniṣad itself derives from them.
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Other works by Gaudapada
- Māṇḍūkya Kārikā (Āgama Śāstra, Gauḍapāda's Verses) · 550
- Vaitathya Prakaraṇa (chapter II: unreality) · 550
- Advaita Prakaraṇa (chapter III: non-duality) · 550
- Alātaśānti Prakaraṇa (chapter IV: the quenching of the firebrand) · 575
- Commentary on the Sāṃkhya Kārikā (Gauḍapāda-bhāṣya)
- Commentary on the Uttara Gītā
- Subhagodaya (hymn of the Śrīvidyā tradition)
- Śrīvidyāratnasūtra
- Other attributed commentaries (Devīmāhātmya, Nṛsiṃha-uttara-tāpanīya, Anugītā, Bṛhadāraṇyaka)
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- Wikisource en sánscrito, «गौडपादकारिका», texto por prakaraṇa (प्रथमप्रकरणम् – चतुर्थप्रकरणम्), con numeración de estrofas.
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