Adi Shankara
Commentary on the Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad and Gauḍapāda's Kārikā
Written work
Commentary on the Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad and Gauḍapāda's Kārikā
माण्डूक्योपनिषद्गौडपादीयकारिकाभाष्य
It comments on the very brief Māṇḍūkya, with its analysis of the syllable OM and the three states —waking, dream, deep sleep— plus the fourth (turīya), together with the verses of Gauḍapāda, his teacher's teacher. It is the text in which Advaita converses most closely with Buddhist thought on non-origination.
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Authorship note
Attribution widely accepted, though some scholars have questioned it on stylistic grounds; Mayeda includes it among the authentic works.
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English
Adi Shankara
The Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad with Gauḍapāda's Kārikā and Śaṅkara's Commentary
The Conscious LibraryThe Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad with Gauḍapāda's Kārikā and Śaṅkara's Commentary
Advaita Ashrama, 2000
Translation: Swami Nikhilananda
Primera edición Mysore, 1936
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
- 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)
- 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
- Dalal, Neil. «Śaṅkara». En Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, primera publicación 4 de octubre de 2021.
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