List of Teachers of Advaita Vedanta - Ancient Acharyas

Ancient Acharyas

• Yajnavalkya: Taught Brahmavidya to his wife Maitreyi, which is recorded in Brhadaranyaka Upanishad.
• Uddalaka: taught Brahmavidya to his son Svetaketu in Chandogya Upanishad.

Pre-Badarayana Acaryas

Works of these Advaita Acharyas are not available now. But they must have been available to Badarayana, who quoted them in his Brahmasutra.

• Badari (referred to in Br. Su. I.2.30, III.1.1, IV.3.7, IV.4.10)
• Audulomi (referred to in Br. Su. I.3.21, III.4.45, IV.4.6)
• Kasakrtsna (referred to in Br. Su. I.4.220
• Asmarathya (referred to in Br. Su. I.2.29, I.4.20)
• Atreya (referred to in Br. Su. III.4.4)
• Karsajini (referred to in Br. Su. III.1.9)

• VyasaBadarayana, author of Brahmasutra, containing 555 sutras, that reconciles the apparent ambiguity of the Upanishads.

Post-Badrayana Acharyas Works of the following Advaita Acharyas are still available, and are being taught and studied even in 2012.

• Bodhayana (pre-Sankara) (Bodhayana-vrtti)
• Brahmanandin (Vakyakara) (Commentary on Chandogyopanishad)
• Dravidacharya (Commentary on Brhadaranyakopanishad)
• Sundarapandya (Vartikakara) (Vartika on Sariraka-Mimamsa)
• Bhartrprapanca
• Gaudapada (700–780 approx.) (Karika on Mandukyopanishad)
• Mandana Mishra (750–850 approx.) (Brahmasiddhi)
• SankaraBhagavatpada (788–820) (Commentary on the Prasthana-traya and Upadesa-Sahasri)

Post-Sankara Acharyas

• Sureswara (8th century), also known as Vartikakara. (Vartika on Sankara's Taittiriyopanishad-Bhashya,Brhadaranyakopanishad-Bhashyam,Naishkarmyasiddhi, Manasollasa)
• Padmapada (8th century) (Pancapadika)
• Hastamalaka (8th century) (Hastamalakiyam)
• Vacaspati Mishra (841–900) (Bhamati, a Tika on Brahmasutra-Sankara-Bhashyam))
• Sarvajnatma Muni (850–950) (Sankshepa-Sariraka)
• Sriharsha (1169–1225) (Khandana-khanda-khadya)
• Prakasatma Yati (AD 1200) (Pancapadika-Vivarana)
• Citsukha (AD 1220) (Citsukhi)
• Ananda Giri - also known as the Tikakara. (Tikas on almost all the Bhashyas of Sankara. It is said nobody knows the mind of Sankara,

better than Ananda Giri.)

• Vimuktatma (AD 1200) (Ishtasiddhi)
• Amalananda (AD 1247) (Vedanta-Kalpataru, a commentary on Bhamati of Vacaspati Misra)
• Vidyaranya (1350–1386) (Pancadasi, Drg-Drsya-Viveka)
• Sadananda Yogindra (mid 15th century) (Vedantasara, the most popular introductory text in Advaita Vedanta)
• Dharmaraja Adhvarindra (1550–1650) (Vedanta-Paribhasha, an epistemological work on Advaita Vedanta
• Nrsimha Ashrama (1500–1600)
• Madhusudana Saraswati (1565–1650) (Advaita-siddhi)
• Appaya Dikshita (AD 1603) (Parimala, Siddhanta-lesa-sangraha)
• Lakshmidhara Kavi (Advaita-Makaranda)