X Gaudapada-Karika li appears to us that Gaudapâda's authorship of the Sankhya- Karikabhäşya, Uttaragitä and Subhagodayastuti can be reasonably accepted to be correct. Gaudapāda appears to have been attracted by the Sankhyakärikās in the beginning, from which he learnt of the Puruşa being entirely different from the Prakrti which alone was responsible for the evolved world. Then he was influenced by the Múlamadhyamakārikā of Nagarjuna, which advocated the unreality of the world, and this enabled him to advocate his Ajätıvāda based upon the cardinal doctrine of the Upanışads, the oneness of Brahman, and he wrote his own Kārkās to preach his Vedāntic doctrine, and especially to controvert the teachings of the Lankavatāra where the Buddha teaches a large number of doctrines, but fails to grasp the most important one which fact Gaudapāda proclaims by saying नेतद्बुद्धेन भाषितम् in IV-99. II The Contents of Gaudapada-Karika Prakarana 1 :— There is only one Paramātman who is all- pervading, but he, in association with the various Upādhis or limit- ing adjuncts, functions in different ways in different states. Thus- (1) He resides in the body in the right eye, is known as Visva, experiences the gross world ( by means of the sense organs and the mind) in the waking state, (2) He is known as Taijasa, residing inside in the mind and experiences the subtle or non-gross in the dream state. (3) He is known as Prājña, residing in the heart-Akāśa, and experiences bliss in the state of deep sleep. This all-pervading Paramātman is known as Turya, the Fourth, being immutable, non-dual, where no duality which is the source of all miseries has any scope. Viśva and Taijasa are bound down by the relation of cause and effect, perceiver and perceived, subject and object etc., under the influence of duality, Prājña only by the cause ( Ajñāna ) and they function accordingly; while the Fourth is beyond all this and is but consciousness or Jñana, and is all-seeing and beyond all duality. In the case of both Präjña and Turya, there is no experience of
