Key Features It provides a holistic perspective of Vedanta making it eminentlyaccessible to the modern reader. The Roots of Vedanta Selections from Sankara's Writings A distillation of the elements of Vedanta delineated bySankara This erudite and wide-ranging anthology offers a panoramic viewof Vedanta in Sankara's own words with selections from standardtranslations of his commentaries on the Upanishads the Brahma-sutra(Vedanta-sutra) and the Bhagavad-gita-texts which together form thescriptural