The philosophy of Māṇḍūkya Kārikā

Varanasi, India: Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan, 1971. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], ii, 238, [2]; old small bookseller's stamp, 2 small corrections to the price in red ink; otherwise a near fine copy in original terracotta cloth, preserving a very good, unclipped dust jacket slightly sunned on the spine. Māṇḍūkyakārikā is the name of "a philosophical work attributed to Gauḍapāda. After he was blessed with the intuitive wisdom of the Absolute, must have taught those who gathered round him the truth he had discovered and embodied it in a work which came to be called the Āgamaśāstra or Gauḍapāda-kārikā. It is an exposition of a short but important Upaniṣad called (truncated) the Māṇḍūkya, which is counted as one of the principal Upaniṣads by all the schools of Vedānta" (Wisdom Library). (Inventory #: 69903)