Badarayana (IAST Bādarāyaṇa; Devanāgari बादरायण) was an Indian philosopher and sage who was the reputed author of the Brahma Sutras. The Brahma Sutras is a source text for the Hindu philosophical school of Vedānta and one of three texts along with the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita which establish the prasthantrayi. Estimates of his lifetime vary very widely from around fifth century BCE to third or fourth century CE.[1][2][3][4]
His work Brahma Sutras is variously dated from 500 BCE to 450 CE.[5] The Brahma Sutras of Bādarāyana, also called the Vedanta Sutra,[6] was compiled in its present form around 400–450 CE,[7] but "the great part of the Sutra must have been in existence much earlier than that".[7] Estimates of the date of Bādarāyana's lifetime differ between 200 BCE and 200 CE.[8]
Bādarāyana is regarded as having written the basic text of the Vedanta system, the Vedāntasūtra a.k.a. Brahmasūtra.[9] He is thus considered the founder of the Vedānta[10] system of philosophy.
References
edit- ^ Ravi Ravindra (2014). The Pilgrim Soul: A Path to the Sacred Transcending World Religions. p. 48. ISBN 9780835631808.
- ^ Coward, Harold (7 February 2008). The Perfectibility of Human Nature in Eastern and Western Thought: The Central Story. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-7336-8.
- ^ Bowker, John (1 January 2003), "Bādarāyaṇa", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-280094-7, retrieved 21 February 2022
- ^ Leaman, Oliver (11 September 2002). Key Concepts in Eastern Philosophy. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-68905-7.
- ^ George C. Adams (1993). The Structure and Meaning of Bādarāyaṇa's Brahma Sūtras: A Translation and Analysis of Adhyaya 1. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 8. ISBN 978-81-208-0931-4.
- ^ Balasubramanian 2000, p. xxxii.
- ^ a b Nakamura 1950a, p. 436.
- ^ Pandey 2000, p. 4.
- ^ Thibaut, George (1890). The Vedanta Sutras. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. pp. passim.
- ^ "Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved 14 January 2016.
Sources
edit- Balasubramanian, R. (2000). "Introduction". In Chattopadhyana (ed.). History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization. Volume II Part 2: Advaita Vedanta. Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilizations.
- Nakamura, Hajime (1950a), A History of Early Vedanta Philosophy. Part One (1990 Reprint), Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited
- Pandey, S.L. (2000), Pre-Sankara Advaita. In: Chattopadhyana (gen.ed.), "History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization. Volume II Part 2: Advaita Vedanta", Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilizations
External links
edit- Works by Bādarāyaṇa at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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