Adi Shankara
Commentaries on the principal Upaniṣads
Written work
Commentaries on the principal Upaniṣads
उपनिषद्भाष्य (Īśa, Kena, Kaṭha, Praśna, Muṇḍaka, Aitareya, Taittirīya)
Commentaries on the shorter Upaniṣads of the canon, from the Īśā to the Taittirīya. In them Śaṅkara develops his exegesis of the "great sayings", distinguishes higher from lower knowledge and explains the Taittirīya's five sheaths (pañcakośa) as a method for separating the self from what is not the self. The Kena has two commentaries, one word by word and one sentence by sentence, a case unique in his work.
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Authorship note
Mayeda regards the commentaries on these seven Upaniṣads as authentic (including the double commentary on the Kena); the one ascribed to the Śvetāśvatara is treated separately as spurious.
Editions and translations
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English
Adi Shankara
Eight Upaniṣads with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya (2 vols.)
The Conscious LibraryEight Upaniṣads with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya (2 vols.)
Advaita Ashrama, 1957
Translation: Swami Gambhirananda
ISBN 9788175050150
Incluye Īśa, Kena, Kaṭha, Taittirīya, Aitareya, Muṇḍaka, Māṇḍūkya con Kārikā y Praśna
Español
Adi Shankara
Upaniṣad con los comentarios advaita de Śaṅkara
The Conscious LibraryUpaniṣad con los comentarios advaita de Śaṅkara
Editorial Trotta, 2009
Translation: Consuelo Martín
ISBN 9788481644531
2.ª edición; primera edición 2001
Other works by Adi Shankara
- Commentary on the Brahmasūtras · 800
- Commentary on the Bhagavadgītā · 800
- 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)
- Prabodhasudhākara (Moon of the Nectar of Awakening)
Sources
- Mayeda, Sengaku. «The Authenticity of the Upadeśasāhasrī Ascribed to Śaṅkara». Journal of the American Oriental Society 85, n.º 2 (1965): 178–196. doi:10.2307/597989.
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