Gaudapada
Commentary on the Sāṃkhya Kārikā (Gauḍapāda-bhāṣya)
Traditional attribution
Commentary on the Sāṃkhya Kārikā (Gauḍapāda-bhāṣya)
सांख्यकारिकाभाष्य (गौडपादभाष्य)
A prose commentary on the seventy verses of Īśvarakṛṣṇa, the classical text of the Sāṃkhya school: the means of knowledge, nature (prakṛti) and its three qualities, spirit (puruṣa), the evolution of the principles and liberation as the isolation of spirit. It was one of the first Indian philosophical works translated into a European language (Colebrooke and Wilson, 1837).
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Authorship note
Transmitted under Gauḍapāda's name, but Larson and Potter consider it unlikely to be by the author of the Māṇḍūkya Kārikā: it is a simple commentary of Sāṃkhya doctrine, very close to the Māṭharavṛtti and to the commentary Paramārtha translated into Chinese in the sixth century. It may be the work of a namesake.
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English
Gaudapada
The Sánkhya Káriká… also the Bháshya or Commentary of Gaurapáda
The Conscious LibraryThe Sánkhya Káriká… also the Bháshya or Commentary of Gaurapáda
Oriental Translation Fund, 1837
Translation: Henry Thomas Colebrooke y Horace Hayman Wilson
Dominio público; reimpresión de Bombay, 1887.
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
- Alātaśānti Prakaraṇa (chapter IV: the quenching of the firebrand) · 575
- Commentary on the Uttara Gītā
- Subhagodaya (hymn of the Śrīvidyā tradition)
- Śrīvidyāratnasūtra
- Other attributed commentaries (Devīmāhātmya, Nṛsiṃha-uttara-tāpanīya, Anugītā, Bṛhadāraṇyaka)
Sources
- Larson, Gerald James, y Ram Shankar Bhattacharya (eds.). Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, vol. IV: Sāṃkhya. A Dualist Tradition in Indian Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press / Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1987 (sobre el Gauḍapāda-bhāṣya).
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