Adi Shankara
Prabodhasudhākara (Moon of the Nectar of Awakening)
Traditional attribution
Prabodhasudhākara (Moon of the Nectar of Awakening)
प्रबोधसुधाकर
A didactic poem of some two hundred and fifty verses that leads the reader from disenchantment with the body and pleasures to meditation and devotion to Kṛṣṇa as a way to knowledge of the Self. Its blend of Advaita and bhakti is typical of the late prakaraṇas ascribed to Śaṅkara.
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Authorship note
Traditionally ascribed to Śaṅkara and included in the Vani Vilas edition of his complete works (a29); modern scholarship, since Hacker and Mayeda, accepts as authentic only the major commentaries and the Upadeśasāhasrī, so this work is recorded as attributed. It opens volume 16 of the Vani Vilas edition, which gathers twenty-five minor prakaraṇas. Spanish title descriptive.
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Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्
Adi Shankara
Miscellaneous Prakaranas, parte 2 de 2
The Conscious LibraryMiscellaneous Prakaranas, parte 2 de 2
Sri Vani Vilas Press, Srirangam, 1910
The Works of Sri Sankaracharya, vol. 16 (texto sánscrito; escaneo en Internet Archive)
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)
- 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)
Sources
- The Works of Sri Sankaracharya in the Original Sanskrit (Sri Vani Vilas Edition), ed. T. K. Balasubrahmanya Aiyar. Srirangam: Sri Vani Vilas Press, 1910–1913, 20 vols. (1–3 Brahmasūtrabhāṣya; 4–10 Upaniṣadbhāṣyas, con el Nṛsiṃhapūrvatāpanī; 11–12 Gītābhāṣya; 13 Viṣṇusahasranāma y Sanatsujātīya; 14 Vivekacūḍāmaṇi y Upadeśasāhasrī; 15–16 prakaraṇas, Aparokṣānubhūti, Prabodhasudhākara y otros 30; 17–18 stotras, 65, con el Lalitātriśatī-bhāṣya; 19–20 Prapañcasāra). Escaneos en Internet Archive, wg1056–wg1075.
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