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The Authorship of the Commentary on the Adhyātmapaṭala Attributed to Śaṅkara

In the currently unpublished study “The general imposters framework and the authenticity of Śaṅkara’s prose writings”, Ivan Andrijanić and Jacek Bąkowski subject the entire corpus of prose writings traditionally attributed to Śaṅkara to the General Imposters framework, a stylometric method of authorship verification. This statistical test proved the more conservative estimates of Śaṅkara’s authorship correct. However, somewhat unexpectedly, the authorship of the commentary on Adhyātmapaṭala, the eighth chapter of the pastamba law book which has been attributed to Śaṅkara, was verified as genuine. This paper analyses the commentary on the Adhyātmapaṭala from the perspective of traditional philological criticism in accordance with Hacker and others’ criteria to assess the reliability of the result obtained through computational statistical methods. It appears that the commentary on the Adhyātmapaṭala is terminologically consistent with Śaṅkara. However, the commentary on the Adhyātmapaṭala also appears to be a work with very limited circulation among traditional scholars with no subcommentaries, which is unusual for Śaṅkara’s authentic works. This leaves room for doubt as to whether this is indeed Śaṅkara’s authentic work.

Adhyātmapaṭalavivaraṇa ; Śaṅkara ; authorship ; stylometry ; Advaita Vedānta

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