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For those interested in the relationship of avidya and maya

Paul Hacker and Mayeda Sengaku did a philological survey of terms used by Sankara in Brahma Sutras and Upadesha Sahasri respectively.
They confirmed Satchidanandendra's discovery that avidya is the cause of Maya rather than simply equal terms.

You can read the introductory section of Mayeda's translation of the Upadesha sahasri and Hacker's essay on "Philology and confrontation"

***as I said, the texts used for research were the Brahma sutra bhashya and the Upadesha Sahasri (two works that were without any doubts written by Shankara) , not the upanishadic or gita bhashyas