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The Purva-Mimamsa sutras of Jaimini can be said to give a synthetic view of the science of rituals as propounded in the Karmakanda portion of the Veda. The Brahma-sutra of the Uttara-Mimamsa-sutra of Badarayana does the same in connection with the teaching of the Jnana-Kanda portion, or the Upanisads. The Brahma-sutra of Badarayama has four chapters (adhyayas), and each of these adhyayas is divided into adhikaranas (sections) comprised of sutras, varying in ...
Prabodhasudhakara has been translated for the first time into English by Samvid and it is published on the birthday of Sri Sankaracarya. The Acharya's commentaries are better known than his original writings and this title is one of the lesser known works. Prabodhasudhakara, like other works of Sri Sankaracharya, is complete in itself. It is a poem in nineteen sections consisting of two hundred and fifty-seven verses, taking the human being as he is through a ...
The svetasvatara Upanisad, belonging to the Black Yajur-veda, takes its name from the sage Svetasvatara who first revealed it to others, as mentioned in verse 6.21 of this Upanisad. The name Svetasvatara is derived thus: One whose organs of sense are very pure. The time of the promulgation of this Upanisad is not known. It quotes from the Samhita portion of the Vedas, and some of its verse are common with the Katha and the Mundaka Upanisads. Although some modern ...
This edition of the Chandogya Upanisad is a companion volume to the translator’s Eight Upanisads published by us. Together with the monumental work on the Brhadaranyak Upanisad by Swami Madhavananda, which is also published by us, it brings to completion the English translation of the commentary of Sankaracarya on all the ten principal; Upanisads. We have already published he translator’s masterly English rendering of the Brahma-Sutra Bhasya of Sankaracarya. ...