Vivekachudamani
Author Attributed to Adi Shankara,[1] though generally rejected by modern scholarship[2][3]
Country India
Language Sanskrit
Subject Hindu philosophy
Genre Advaita Vedanta
Publisher Original: 8th century or later; Modern: T.K. Balasubramania Iyer (1910)[4]
Published in English
Many (Madhavananda (1921), Charles Johnston (1946), John Grimes (2004))
OCLC 51477985
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The Vivekachudamani (Sanskrit: विवेकचूडामणि) is an introductory treatise within the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Hinduism.[5] It is in the form of a poem in the Shardula Vikridita metre,[6] and for many centuries has been celebrated as a prakaraṇa grantha (teaching manual) of Advaita.[5] The Hindu tradition attributes it to Adi Shankara of the eighth century CE. This attribution is controversial, generally considered "most probably erroneous" by modern scholarship. Its likely author may be one of the other Shankaracharyas of the Advaita tradition.