CONTENTS Introduction Pages I Gauda pāda: His Date, Life, Works etc. i-x II The contents of Gaudapāda-Kärikä X-xxi: III Was Gaudapäda a Buddhist ? xxii-xxvii IV The Title of the whole work and the several Prakaranas thereof xxvii-sviii V The Mandukyopanişad and the twenty-nine Karikās in the first Prakarana xxviii-xxxii VI Are the four Prakaranas inter-related ? xxxiii-Li VII The Sources of Gauda pada-Kärikä XLi-xLvii VIII Gaudapāda's contribution to Indian Philosophical Thought xLvii-Lii Text and Translation प्रथम प्रकरणम् १-९ द्वितीयं प्रकरणम् तृतीयं प्रकरणम् चतुर्थ प्रकरणम् Notes Chapter 1 57-70 Chapter II 71-88 Chapter III 88-107 Chapter IV 108-146 Appendix I An Alphabetical Index to the Karikas 147-154 Appendix II Index to Important Words in the Notes 155-157 [ The usual Abbreviations are used in this edition. The Bhäşya on the Kārikās, attributed to Sankarācārya is referred to as K.bhāşya or Sankara-bhaşya. ]
