Adi Shankara
Pañcīkaraṇa (The Quintuplication of the Elements)
Traditional attribution
Pañcīkaraṇa (The Quintuplication of the Elements)
पञ्चीकरण (Pañcīkaraṇa)
A short prose treatise on how the five subtle elements combine to form the gross world, and on meditation on the syllable OM that retraces that process in reverse. According to tradition, Sureśvara commented on it in a Vārttika.
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Authorship note
Its authorship is debated: Sundaresan (2002) revisits Hacker's criteria through this case and argues they are insufficient to exclude it.
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English
Adi Shankara
Panchikaranam of Sri Shankaracharya
The Conscious Library
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
- 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
- Sundaresan, Vidyasankar. «What Determines Śaṅkara's Authorship? The Case of the Pañcīkaraṇa». Philosophy East and West 52, n.º 1 (2002): 1–35. doi:10.1353/pew.2002.0006.
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