Sankara Bibliography

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As some of you may know, I am a beginning seeker in Advaita Vedanta,

particularly according to the teachings of Sankara. I come by way of

Vivekananda.

I have absolute zero Sanskrit knowledge, having spent most of my life as a

reporter/editor/publisher in non-fiction books in English.

 

In my beginning search, I was fortunate enough to purchase the following

books recently from the Vedanta bookstore in Seattle, of which the first two

are wonderful, the third okay.

 

Swami Prabhavananda & Christopher Isherwood, Shankara's Crest-Jewel of

Discrimination, 1947, 78, Vedanta Press, Hollywood

Govind Chandra Pande, Life and Thought of Sankaracarya, 1992, 94, 98, Motilai

Banarsidass Publishers, Delhi

Kuppuswami, Sri Sankara Bhagavatpadacarya, 1972, 91, S. Radhakrishnan, Madras

>From the Pande book and from a website I have built up the following

incomplete Sankara bibliography. I am asking that Advaitin members please

comment, make suggestions and / or critique any of the titles in this list if

you know about them or read them.

 

Here is the list:

 

 

Sankara Bibliography from Pande

 

 

Don’t know if the following are in English or Sanskrit

 

Alston, A Sankara Sourcebook,

Bhasyacharga, Age of Sankara, Adyar Library Series,

C.N. Krishnasvamilyer, Sankara -- His Life and Times, G.A. Natesan, Madras

Govind Chandra Pande, Foundations of Indian Culture,

Govind Chandra Pande, An Approach to Indian Culture and Civilization,

Govind Chandra Pande, The Role of Sankara, 1989, Jaipur

Govind Chandra Pande, Studies in the Origins of Buddhism,

H.H. Jagadguru Sri Candrasekharendra Sarasvati, Adi Sankara -- His Life and

Times,

Paul Hacker, Philology and Confrontation: Paul Hacker on Traditional and

Modern Vedanta, 1995, SUNY

Hajime Nakamura, History of Vedanta,

K.T. Telang, Sankaracarya, Philosopher and Mystic, 1911, Adyar

N. Ramesan, Sri Sankaracarya, 1959, Ponnur

N. Venkataraman, Sankaracarya the Great and His Successors in Kanchi, 1923,

Madras

N.K. Venkatesan, Sankara and His Kamakotipitha, 1915, Kumbhakonam,

S.K. Belvalkar, Lectures on Vedanta Philosophy,

S.S. Suryanaravana Sastri, Sankaracarya, G.A. Natesan, Madras

S.S. Suryanaravana Sastri, Life and Teachings of Sankaracarya,

T.S. Narayana Shastri, The Age of Sankara, 1916, 71, 80, Madras

T.S. Narayana Shastri, Sri Sankaracarya, 1980, Tiruchirapalli,

 

English bibliography from

http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/avhp/sankara-life.html [some repeats of above

list]

Govind Chandra Pande, Life and thought of Sankaracarya, Motilal Banarsidass,

Delhi, 1994.

A. Kuppuswami, Sri Bhagavatpada Sankaracarya, Chowkhamba Sanskrit Studies v.

89, Varanasi, 1972. (with Sanskrit quotations)

C. N. Krishnaswami Aiyar, Sri Sankaracharya: His Life and Times, G.A. Natesan

& Co., Madras, undated.

Sitanath Datta, Sankaracharya, his life and teachings with a translation of

Atmabodha, Society for the Resuscitation of Indian Literature, Calcutta,

1911.

Pundi Seshadri, Sri Sankaracharya, University of Travancore, Trivandrum,

1949. (with Sanskrit quotations)

T. M. P. Mahadevan, Sankaracharya, National Book Trust, New Delhi, 1968.

Mathuram Bhoothalingam, Had Sankara lived today, Affiliated East-West Press,

1981.

Prem Lata, Shankaracharya, Sumit Publications, Delhi, 1982.

Indusekhara S. Madugula, The Acarya, Sankara of Kaladi : A Story, Motilal

Banarsidass, Delhi, 1985.

D. B. Gangolli, The Essential Adi Shankara, Adhyatma Prakasha Karyalaya,

Bangalore, 1992.

T. S. Rukmani, Shankaracharya, Publications Division, Ministry of Information

and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, New Delhi, 1994.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I am going to try and build a personal Sanskrit/English dictionary for my

reading use. Please advise what transliteration convention I should be

using.

Are there any special fonts that I need to download?

 

Min