Advaita Vedanta is a school of Hindu philosophy{{#invoke:Footnotes|sfn}}{{#invoke:Footnotes|sfn}}{{#invoke:Footnotes|sfn}}{{#invoke:Footnotes|sfn}} and religious practice, giving “a unifying interpretation of the whole body of Upanishads”. {{#invoke:Footnotes|sfn}} The principal, though not the first, exponent of the Advaita Vedanta-interpretation was Shankara Bhagavadpada{{#invoke:Footnotes|sfn}} who systematised the works of preceding philosophers.
