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Hacker, B2162; Mayeda, B1942B; Mayeda, “On the author of the Māṇḍūkyopaniṣad—and the Gauḍapādiyābhāṣya,” Adyar Library Bulletin 31-32 (1967-68), pp. 73-94; “On Śamkara’s authorship of the Kenopaniṣadbhāṣya,” Indo-Iranian Journal 10 (1967), pp. 33-55; “Śamkara’s Upadeśāsahasri: its present form,” Journal of the Oriental Institute (Baroda) 15 (1966), pp. 252-257; “The authenticity of the Bhagavadgītābhāṣya ascribed to Śamkara,” Wiener Zeitschrift fur des Kunde Sud- und Ostasien 9 (1965), pp. 155-197. ### [v3.c19.s6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.2) 2. Ingalls, “The study of Śamkarācārya,” op. cit. ### [v3.c19.s6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.3) 3. Cf. also Märschner, B1680. ### [v3.c19.s6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.4) 4. Mayeda, B1942B. ### [v3.c19.s6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.5) 5. The grounds for this statement are reviewed in S. K. Belvalkar, Vedānta Philosophy Part I: Lectures 1-6 (Poona, 1929). ### [v3.c19.s6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.6) 6. In Upadeśāsahasri II.18.2, as well as in Gauḍapādakārikābhāṣya IV.100, if we accept the latter work as authentic. ### [v3.c19.s6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.7) 7. Belvalkar, op. cit. ### [v3.c19.s6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.8) 8. Kunjunni Raja in Adyar Library Bulletin 24 (1960). ### [v3.c19.s6.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.9) ⁹ Cf. Allen Wright Thrasher, The Advaita of Maṇḍana Miśra’s Brahmasiddhi. Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University, 197. ### [v3.c19.s6.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.10) 10. Ibid. See below, under Maṇḍana Miśra, for references on the Maṇḍana-Sureśvara equation. ### [v3.c19.s6.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.11) 11. For more complete accounts based on this literature see, e.g., Baijnath, B6562; Seshadri, B2156; D. N. Pillai, \*Śaṃkara the Sublime\* (Calcutta, 1912); K. T. Telanga, \*Shamkaracharya, Philosopher and Mystic\* (Adyar, 1911); T. S. Narayana Sastri, \*The Age of Śaṃkara\* (Madras 1916; enlarged ed. 1971); Menon, B1522; Agamananda's introduction to Tattvananda (tr.), \*The Quintessence of Vedānta\* (Calcutta, n.d.; Ernakulam, 1960). ### [v3.c19.s6.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.12) 12. Belvalkar, op. cit., regards this story as "silly myth-mongering" (p. 233, note); Daya Krishna, B2268A, discusses its implications. ### [v3.c19.s6.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.13) 13. Consult A. Nataraja Aiyer and S. Laksminarasimha Sastri, \*The Traditional Age of Sri Samkaracharya and the Math\* (Madras 1962), as well as the works cited under the preceding notes. ### [v3.c19.s6.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.14) 14. An "ulcerated sore, or fistula," says K. T. Telanga, op. cit. ### [v3.c19.s6.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.15) 15. Ingalls, op. cit.; see also B2173 and B2177. ### [v3.c19.s6.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.16) 16. Hacker, "Śaṃkara der Yogin und Śaṃkara der Advaitin. Einige Beobachtungen," \*Wiener Zeitschrift für des Kunde Süd- und Ostasien\* 12-13 (1968-69), pp. 119-148. ### [v3.c19.s6.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.17) 17. Hacker, "Relations of early Advaitins to Vaiṣṇavism", \*Wiener Zeitschrift für des Kunde Süd- und Ostasien\* 9 (1965), pp. 147-154. ### [v3.c19.s6.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.18) 18. E.g., Ghate, B7609; Radhakrishnan, B8996; B.N.K. Sharma, B1242. ### [v3.c19.s6.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.19) 19. Thibaut, introduction to B1610. See Amalnerkar, B1613; Faddegon, B6672. ### [v3.c19.s6.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.20) 20. E.g., Modi, B1663, B1668; A. K. Banerjee, B6758. ### [v3.c19.s6.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.21) 21. Mahadevan, B2390. ### [v3.c19.s6.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.22) 22. Märschner, B1680; Hacker, B6956, p. 1918. ### [v3.c19.s6.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.23) 23. Ingalls, B2177, p. 295. ### [v3.c19.s6.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.24) 24. Van Boetzelaer's introduction to his translation of Sureśvara's \*Taittirīyopaniṣadbhāṣyavārttika\* (Leiden, 1971). ### [v3.c19.s6.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.25) 25. R. Balasubramaniam, Introduction to his translation of Sureśvara's \*Taittirīyopaniṣadbhāṣyavārttika\*, Madras University Philosophy Series 20 (Madras, 1974), pp. 15-16. ### [v3.c19.s6.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.26) 26. Ibid., p. 21. ### [v3.c19.s6.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.27) 27. Mayeda, B1942B; Mayeda, "Śaṃkara's Upadeśasāhasrī," op. cit.; Mayeda's introduction to his edition of \*Upadeśasāhasrī\* (Tokyo, 1873). ### [v3.c19.s6.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.28) 28. G. A. Jacob, preface to B2394, pp. 8 ff. Cf. Mayeda, B1942B, p. 188. ### [v3.c19.s6.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.29) 29. Mayeda, B1942B, p. 196. ### [v3.c19.s6.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.30) 30. Mayeda, "Śaṃkara's Upadeśasāhasrī," op. cit. ### [v3.c19.s6.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.31) 31. Cited in Mitra, B1688. ### [v3.c19.s6.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.32) 32. R. D. Ranade, op. cit., p. 24. ### [v3.c19.s6.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.33) 33. Hiriyanna, introduction to B1775, pp. iv-v. ### [v3.c19.s6.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.34) 34. S. C. Vidyarnava, B1770. ### [v3.c19.s6.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.35) ³⁵ Budhakar, B2081; R. M. Sastri, B2064; Belvalkar, op. cit. ### [v3.c19.s6.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.36) ³⁶ Mayeda, "On Śaṃkara's authorship of the Kenopaniṣadbhāṣya," op. cit. ### [v3.c19.s6.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.37) ³⁷ Ranade, op. cit., p. 29. ### [v3.c19.s6.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.38) ³⁸ \*The Upaniṣads\*, translated by F. Max Müller. Part II. Sacred Books of the East 15 (Oxford, 1884; New York, 1962), pp. xxvii. ### [v3.c19.s6.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.39) ³⁹ Anam Charan Swain, "Authenticity of the Bhagavadgītābhāṣya attributed to Śaṃkarācārya," \*Mysore Orientalist\* 2.1 (1969), pp. 32-38, citing Hacker, B2162, Cf. also Karmarkar, B1587. ### [v3.c19.s6.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.40) 40. Ingalls, "Study of Śaṃkarācārya," op. cit., pp. 7-8. ### [v3.c19.s6.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.41) 41. V. Raghavan, "Bhāskara's Gītābhāṣya," \*Wiener Zeitschrift für des Kunde Süd- und Ostasien\* 12-13 (1968-69), pp. 281-294, esp. 283 ff. ### [v3.c19.s6.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.42) 42. Mayeda, "The authenticity of the Bhagavadgītābhāṣya," op. cit. ### [v3.c19.s6.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.43) 43. See, e.g., Modi B1582, B1583, B1585. ### [v3.c19.s6.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.44) 44. Cf. Mukherji, B9184; B.N.K. Sharma in Principle Karmarkar Commemoration Volume (Poona, 1948), 180-195; Ray, B6860 (=B1583A); K. S. Iyer in \*Vedanta Kesari\* 1 (1914-15), pp. 42-47. ### [v3.c19.s6.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.45) 45. In \*Journal of the American Oriental Society\* 33 (1913), p. 52, note 2; cited in Mayeda, "On the author of the Māṇḍūkyopaniṣad," op. cit. ### [v3.c19.s6.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.46) 46. Suryanarayana Sastri, "Some observations on the Māṇḍūkyakārikās" in \*Collected Papers of S. Suryanarayana Sastri\* (ed. T.M.P. Mahadevan) (Madras 1961), pp. 262-271. ### [v3.c19.s6.47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.47) 47. Belvalkar, op. cit., p. 218. ### [v3.c19.s6.48](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.48) 48. R. V. de Smet, "The law of karma," \*Indian Philosophical Annual\* 2 (1966), pp. 328-335. ### [v3.c19.s6.49](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.49) 49. Ingalls, "Study of Śaṃkarācārya," op. cit., p. 12. ### [v3.c19.s6.50](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.50) 50. Hacker, "Notes on the Māṇḍūkyopaniṣad," op. cit. ### [v3.c19.s6.51](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.51) 51. Majumdar, B1260. ### [v3.c19.s6.52](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.52) 52. Tilmann Vetter, "Zur Bedeutung des Illusionismus bei Śaṃkara," \*Wiener Zeitschrift für des Kunde Süd- und Ostasiens\* 12-13 (1968-69), pp. 407-423. ### [v3.c19.s6.53](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.53) 53. Hacker, "Notes on the Māṇḍūkyopaniṣad," op. cit. ### [v3.c19.s6.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.54) 54. Mayeda, "On the author of the Māṇḍūkyopaniṣad," op. cit. ### [v3.c19.s6.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.55) 55. Hacker, "Notes on the Māṇḍūkyopaniṣad," op. cit., p. 130. ### [v3.c19.s6.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.56) 56. Ibid., p. 131. ### [v3.c19.s6.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.57) 57. Mayeda, "On the author of the Māṇḍūkyopaniṣad," op. cit. ### [v3.c19.s6.58](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.58) 58. Belvalkar, op. cit., pp. 226-227. ### [v3.c19.s6.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.59) 59. Ibid., p. 226. ### [v3.c19.s6.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.60) 60. Ingalls, "The Study of Śaṃkarācārya," op. cit. ### [v3.c19.s6.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.61) 61. Mayeda, introduction to his edition of \*Upadeśasāhasrī\*, op. cit., p. xi. ### [v3.c19.s6.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.62) 62. Hacker, B2142. ### [v3.c19.s6.63](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.63) 63. Belvalkar, op. cit. ### [v3.c19.s6.64](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.64) 64. Hacker, B2142; Ingalls, "The study of Śaṃkarācārya," op. cit.; Mayeda, introduction to his edition of \*Upadeśasāhasrī\*, op. cit. ### [v3.c19.s6.65](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.65) 65. Belvalkar, op. cit., p. 227. ### [v3.c19.s6.66](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.66) 66. Hacker, B2142; Mayeda, introduction to his edition of \*Upadeśasāhasrī\*, op. cit. ### [v3.c19.s6.67](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.67) 67. Belvalkar, op. cit., p. 227. ### [v3.c19.s6.68](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.68) 68. Hacker, B2142. ### [v3.c19.s6.69](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.69) 69. Belvalkar, op. cit., p. 229. ### [v3.c19.s6.70](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.70) 70. Ingalls, "Study of Śaṃkarācārya," p. 7. ### [v3.c19.s6.71](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.71) 71. Hacker, B2142. ### [v3.c19.s6.72](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.72) ⁷² Mayeda, "Śaṃkara's Upadeśasāhasrī," op. cit. ### [v3.c19.s6.73](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6.73) ⁷³ Belvalkar, op. cit., p. 229. ## Cites (1) - [Upadeśasāhasrī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.advaita.prakarana.early.sankara-prakarana.upadesasahasri) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.potter-1970.v3.c19.s6) · Pramāṇa