Advaita

A Thousand Teachings

Upadeśasāhasrī

उपदेशसाहस्री

Author
Śaṅkara
Language
Sanskrit
Period
c. 8th century CE
Tradition
Advaita
Versions
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Śaṅkara's major independent Advaita treatise in prose and verse. Sanskrit via GRETIL.

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The Upadeśasāhasrī is widely regarded as Śaṅkara's principal independent work, teaching liberation through knowledge of the non-dual Self. It circulates in metrīcal and prose sections and is a cornerstone of Advaita pedagogy. The GRETIL corpustei HTML encoding provides the IAST Sanskrit witness used here.

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