TY  - BOOK
TI  - Brahmasutra shankara bhashyam: Chatu sutri
U1  - 181.48 Sr31 B 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Shrungeri
PB  - Sri sri jagadguru shankara charya mahasthanam
KW  - Brahmasūtra (Bādarāyaṇa)
KW  - Vedanta
N1  - I T is with mixed feelings of personal satisfaction and some 
diffidence that I am venturing to commend to the notice of 
the public my English translation of the famous Brahma- 
Sutra-Shankara-Bhashya, also known as the Sharlraka- 
Bhashya. I am not sure if a book of this nature needs any 
preface at all, still, it is usual for a book of this type to have 
some such introduction, just as it has been the recognized 
traditional practice of old Sanskrit writers to begin their 
work with an auspicious verse (Mangala). This tradition of 
an auspicious verse is so deeply rooted in the minds of old 
Sanskrit writers, that when in some few cases such an aus- 
picious verse is conspicuous by its absence, it is found 
necessary to supply the deficiency anyhow. For instance 
the Brahma-Sutras of Badarayana have no such auspicious 
verse, and commenting on their very first Sutra, ‘Athato 
Brahmajijnasa ’, Sbankaracharya, while observing that the 
word ‘ Atha ’ could not be construed in the sense of an 
auspicious verse, is yet anxious to supply the deficiency by 
saying that the mere hearing of the word ‘ Atha ’ has the 
effect of an auspicious verse. It is merely with a view to 
comply with such usual practice, therefore, that a short 
preface is here attempted.
; Adhysa bhashyam, Gignasadhikarnam
ER  -