Sarvamula

By Swami Harshananda

Sarvamula literally means ‘essence or root of all scriptures’.

All the 37 works of Madhvācārya exhibit a thorough unity of purpose. Each work serves as an interpretation of the others. Hence his immediate followers collected his works under a single title, the Sarvamula. They are generally divided into seven groups. They are:

1. Gītāprasthāna
2. Upaniṣat- prasthānaSutraprasthāna
3. Rkprasthāna
4. Itihāsa and Purāna
5. Daśaprakaraṇas
6. Tantrasāra
7. Stotras

References

• The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore

Contributors to this article

Krishna Maheshwari, Deval Sancheti

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