Vedānta-sūtra

The Vedānta-sūtra (Brahma-sūtra) of Bādarāyaṇa Vyāsa — a corpus of maximally terse aphorisms that systematizes the teaching of the Upaniṣads. Four chapters: harmonizing the texts on Brahman, answering the opponents, the path of attainment, and the fruit — liberation. This book gives the bare sūtra text with word-by-word glosses and a literary translation, without commentary; the commentaries of the principal Vedānta schools are published as separate books. The text follows the Madhva recension (564 sūtras) — the Brahma-Madhva line in which the Gauḍīya Govinda-bhāṣya was also written; schools count the sūtras differently (Rāmānuja 545, Śaṅkara 555).