Traditional attribution
Sub-commentary on the Yogasūtras
पातञ्जलयोगसूत्रभाष्यविवरण (Pātañjalayogasūtrabhāṣyavivaraṇa)
A sub-commentary on Vyāsa's commentary to Patañjali's Yogasūtras. Were it authentic, it would show a Śaṅkara trained in Yoga before turning to Vedānta. Trevor Leggett translated it in full into English.
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Authorship note
Published in 1952 from a manuscript ascribing it to Śaṅkara Bhagavatpāda. Hacker argued it would be an early work by the same author, before his Advaita commitment; others (Halbfass, Rukmani) place it centuries later. The question remains open.
Editions and translations
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English
Sankara on the Yoga Sutras
Motilal Banarsidass, 2006
Translation: Trevor Leggett
ISBN 9788120829893
The Complete Commentary by Śaṅkara on the Yoga Sūtra-s
Kegan Paul International, 1990
Translation: Trevor Leggett
ISBN 0710302770
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
- 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
- Leggett, Trevor (trad.). Śaṅkara on the Yoga Sūtra-s: The Vivaraṇa Sub-commentary to Vyāsa-bhāṣya on the Yoga-sūtra-s of Patañjali. Londres: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981–1983; The Complete Commentary by Śaṅkara on the Yoga Sūtra-s, Londres: Kegan Paul International, 1990 (ISBN 0710302770).
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