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01Brahma Sūtras 1.1Śaṅkara's introduction 02Brahma Sūtras 1.2Adhyāya I, Pāda 2 03Brahma Sūtras 1.3Adhyāya I, Pāda 3 04Brahma Sūtras 1.4Adhyāya I, Pāda 4 05Brahma Sūtras 2.1Adhyāya II, Pāda 1 06Brahma Sūtras 2.2Adhyāya II, Pāda 2 07Brahma Sūtras 2.3Adhyāya II, Pāda 3 08Brahma Sūtras 2.4Adhyāya II, Pāda 4 09Brahma Sūtras 3.1Adhyāya III, Pāda 1 10Brahma Sūtras 3.2Adhyāya III, Pāda 2 11Brahma Sūtras 3.3Adhyāya III, Pāda 3 12Brahma Sūtras 3.4Adhyāya III, Pāda 4 13Brahma Sūtras 4.1Adhyāya IV, Pāda 1 14Brahma Sūtras 4.2Adhyāya IV, Pāda 2 15Brahma Sūtras 4.3Adhyāya IV, Pāda 3 16Brahma Sūtras 4.4Adhyāya IV, Pāda 4

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Brahma Sūtras

Bādarāyaṇa's 555 aphorisms on Brahman, the root text of Vedānta, with Śaṅkara's Advaita commentary.

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The Vedānta-Sūtras with Śaṅkara's commentary, tr. George Thibaut
George Thibaut, 1890

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The Vedānta-Sūtras with Śaṅkara's commentary, tr. George ThibautTranslation · English · George Thibaut, 1890

George Thibaut's translation (1890–96). Each passage opens with Bādarāyaṇa's sūtra, followed by Śaṅkara's Advaita commentary. Long vowels are unmarked, and in the second half, read from scans, some Sanskrit words may appear garbled.

The Vedânta-Sûtras with the Commentary by Saṅkarâkârya, translated by George Thibaut, Sacred Books of the East 34 and 38 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890, 1896). Public domain. Part I from Project Gutenberg eBook #16295, checked against Internet Archive scans (vedntasutrastr01bdar, mlbd.vedantasutras00vol-34.bada); Part II read from Internet Archive scans (vedntasutrastr02bdar, wg938, SacredBooksEast.varorsch.50VolumesWithIndexMaxMuller.Oxford.1879.1910). Thibaut's introduction and notes omitted. · Source ↗

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