Adi Shankara
Prapañcasāra Tantra (The Essence of Manifestation)
Traditional attribution
Prapañcasāra Tantra (The Essence of Manifestation)
प्रपञ्चसारतन्त्र
A Tantric manual in verse on the emanation of the cosmos from sound, the letters as divine powers, mantras, ritual diagrams and the worship of various deities. Its ascription to Śaṅkara served lineages that joined Advaita with Goddess worship; Arthur Avalon published it in 1914 in his series of Tantric texts.
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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 is the most debated case: a Tantric treatise on worship and mantras that is hard to reconcile with the doctrine of the commentaries. Spanish title descriptive.
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Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्
Adi Shankara
Prapañcasāra
The Conscious LibraryPrapañcasāra
Sri Vani Vilas Press, Srirangam, 1910
The Works of Sri Sankaracharya, vol. 19–20 (texto sánscrito; escaneo en Internet Archive)
Adi Shankara
Prapanchasāra Tantra
The Conscious LibraryPrapanchasāra Tantra
Sanskrit Press Depository, Calcuta, 1914
Serie Tantrik Texts (dir. Arthur Avalon). Registro de Open Library OL59251172M.
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
- 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
- Open Library: Prapanchasāra Tantra. Calcuta: Sanskrit Press Depository, 1914 (serie Tantrik Texts dirigida por Arthur Avalon, seudónimo de Sir John Woodroffe), registro OL59251172M; Vedānta in ten verses (Daśaślokī) of Śaṅkarācārya, ed. y trad. T. M. P. Mahadevan y N. Veezhinathan, Madrás: Śaṅkara Vihār, 1965 (OL62265675M); Śrī Kanakadhārā stotram, Chennai: Śrī Tayā Papḷikēṣan, 1977 (OL47937733M).
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