Apastamba Shankaras commentary quotes
Quotations in Sankara’s Commentary
Abbreviation Quantity Work cited
Apas. 9 Law-book of Apastamba (in prose)
Brihad. 7 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Chand. 5 Chandogya Upanishad
Gautama 1 Law-book of Gautama (in prose)
Gita 5 Bhagavad Gita
Isa 1 Isa Upanishad
Kathaka 6 Katha Upanishad
Mahabh. 7 Mahabharata epic
Mahanar. 5 Mahanarayana Upanishad
Manu 3 Law-book of Manu (in verse)
Mund. 6 Mundaka Upanishad
Ivetas. 1 Svetasvatara Upanishad
Taitt. 6 Taittirlya Upanishad
Taitt. Ar. 1 Taittiriya Aranyaka
Taitt. Br. 1 Taittiriya Brahmana
Taitt. Sa. 1 Taittiriya Samhita
Unidentified 1 Perhaps a lost Upanishadic text
The relative frequency of the quotations from the Upanishads is close to that found in other commentaries of Sankara which are well authenticated.
The citations from non-Upanishadic authority are all found in his other commentaries; the numbers here, though small, show Sankara’s usual reliance on the Gita and the Mokshadharma section of the Mahābharata epic, and the Law-books of Manu and Apastamba. As the basic text is a section of the Apastamba itself, it is natural that there should be here a number of citations of other parts of that book.