Gaudapada
Alātaśānti Prakaraṇa (chapter IV: the quenching of the firebrand)
Written work
Alātaśānti Prakaraṇa (chapter IV: the quenching of the firebrand)
अलातशान्तिप्रकरण
One hundred verses. It opens with homage to "the best of bipeds" who awakened to the nature of phenomena; it refutes the Sāṃkhya and Vaiśeṣika theories of causation and examines the thesis of non-origination; it compares the experience of subject and object to the figures traced by a whirling firebrand (4.47–52); it distinguishes three levels of knowledge — ordinary, purified and supramundane — and concludes that consciousness does not touch phenomena, something "not taught by the Buddha" (4.99).
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Authorship note
The fourth chapter, the longest and the closest to Buddhism. Murti and King consider it possible that it is by another author or an independent work; later Advaita authors hardly quote it.
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Other works by Gaudapada
- Māṇḍūkya Kārikā (Āgama Śāstra, Gauḍapāda's Verses) · 550
- Āgama Prakaraṇa (chapter I: the revealed tradition) · 550
- Vaitathya Prakaraṇa (chapter II: unreality) · 550
- Advaita Prakaraṇa (chapter III: non-duality) · 550
- 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)
Sources
- Wikisource en sánscrito, «गौडपादकारिका», texto por prakaraṇa (प्रथमप्रकरणम् – चतुर्थप्रकरणम्), con numeración de estrofas.
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