Traditional attribution
Paramārthasāra (The Essence of Supreme Truth)
परमार्थसार (Paramārthasāra, también Āryāpañcāśīti)
A poem of some eighty-five verses in āryā metre presenting liberation as the recognition of the self's identity with the absolute, with imagery from Sāṃkhya and Vedānta. Abhinavagupta rewrote it in a Kashmir Śaiva key under the same title.
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Authorship note
Ascribed to Ādiśeṣa, the divine serpent of whom tradition makes Patañjali an incarnation; through that equivalence some editors place it under his name. Scholarship regards it as the work of a Vaiṣṇava author of uncertain date, earlier than Abhinavagupta's Śaiva adaptation (10th–11th c.).
Editions and translations
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English
The Essence of Supreme Truth (Paramārthasāra)
E. J. Brill, 1980
Translation: Henrik Danielson
ISBN 9789004061736
Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्
Patañjali
The Paramârthasâra of Bhagavad Âdiśeṣa, con el comentario de Rāghavānanda
The Conscious LibraryThe Paramârthasâra of Bhagavad Âdiśeṣa, con el comentario de Rāghavānanda
Travancore Government Press (Trivandrum Sanskrit Series), 1911
Translation: T. Gaṇapati Śāstrī (edición)
Other works by Patañjali
- Yoga Sūtras (The Aphorisms of Yoga) · 325
- Samādhipāda (Chapter on Concentration)
- Sādhanapāda (Chapter on Means)
- Vibhūtipāda (Chapter on Powers)
- Kaivalyapāda (Chapter on Isolation)
- Yogabhāṣya (Commentary on the Yoga) · 325
- Mahābhāṣya (The Great Commentary) · 150
- Revision of Caraka's treatise (lost)
- Pātañjalatantra (medical treatise)
- Nidānasūtra (aphorisms on Vedic metre)
Sources
- Danielson, Henrik (trad.). Ādiśeṣa: The Essence of Supreme Truth (Paramārthasāra). Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1980. ISBN 9789004061736.
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