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Together with the Principal Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita, The Vedanta-Sutras form the trilogy of sacred texts considered most important to Vedanta philosophy. Here is presented Part 1 comprised of adhyāya 1 and adhyāya 2 (pādas 1-2), with an introduction by the translator, Sanskrit scholar and Allahabad University professor of philosophy, Dr. George Thibaut, C.I.E., Ph.D., D.Sc., as well as the highly influential and oldest surviving commentary on the text by Sri Adi Shankaracharya. This exposition, or bhashya, most likely written in the first half of the 8th century CE, is one of the foundational texts of the Hindu school of Advaita Vedanta. The first adhyāya synthesizes the meanings of several Upanishads and seeks to characterize the true nature of Brahman, while simultaneously refuting several principles of the Samkhya school. 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Together with the Principal Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita, The Vedanta-Sutras form the trilogy of sacred texts considered most important to Vedanta philosophy. Here is presented Part 1 comprised of adhyāya 1 and adhyāya 2 (pādas 1-2), with an introduction by the translator, Sanskrit scholar and Allahabad University professor of philosophy, Dr. George Thibaut, C.I.E., Ph.D., D.Sc., as well as the highly influential and oldest surviving commentary on the text by Sri Adi Shankaracharya. This exposition, or bhashya, most likely written in the first half of the 8th century CE, is one of the foundational texts of the Hindu school of Advaita Vedanta. The first adhyāya synthesizes the meanings of several Upanishads and seeks to characterize the true nature of Brahman, while simultaneously refuting several principles of the Samkhya school. 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