The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 Author: Translator: George Thibaut Release Date: July 15, 2005 [EBook #16295] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VEDANTA-SUTRAS *** Produced by Srinivasan Sriram, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team VEDÂNTA-SÛTRAS With the Commentary by SA@NKARÂCHÂRYA Translated by GEORGE THIBAUT Part I CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION VEDÂNTA-SÛTRAS WITH THE COMMENTARY BY SA@NKARÂCHÂRYA. ADHYÂYA I. Pâda I. Pâda II. Pâda III. Pâda IV. ADHYÂYA II. Pâda I. Pâda II. Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East. [Transcriber's Note: The sequence "@n" is used to transcribe the character "n" with a horizontal line (a "macron") across the top.] {Intro 9} INTRODUCTION. To the sacred literature of the Brahmans, in the strict sense of the term, i.e. to the Veda, there belongs a certain number of complementary works without whose assistance the student is, according to Hindu notions, unable to do more than commit the sacred texts to memory.