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Yogabhāṣya (Commentary on the Yogasūtras) — Vyasa

Traditional attribution

Yogabhāṣya (Commentary on the Yogasūtras)

योगभाष्य (Yogabhāṣya), también व्यासभाष्य

Vyāsa y sus discípulos ven llegar a Śuka (Razmnāma)
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The oldest and most authoritative commentary on the Yogasūtras, explaining their aphorisms, defining the states of the mind and the stages of concentration and fixing the classical doctrine of yoga. All later exegesis of the Yogasūtras was done through this text, which tradition simply calls 'Vyāsa's commentary'.

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Authorship note

Ascribed to Vyāsa by medieval tradition (Vācaspati Miśra and later commentators). Maas and Bronkhorst maintain that aphorisms and commentary form a single work by Patañjali, the Pātañjalayogaśāstra (c. 325–425); the attribution to Vyāsa is now regarded as disputed.

Editions and translations

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English

  • Yoga Philosophy of Patañjali, containing his Yoga Aphorisms with Vyāsa's Commentary — Vyasa

    Yoga Philosophy of Patañjali, containing his Yoga Aphorisms with Vyāsa's Commentary

    State University of New York Press, 1983

    Translation: Swāmi Hariharānanda Āraṇya; trad. inglesa de P. N. Mukerji

    ISBN 9780873957298

  • The Yoga-System of Patañjali (Harvard Oriental Series 17)

    Harvard University Press, 1914

    Translation: James Haughton Woods

    Dominio público. Reimpresión South Asia Books, 1998: ISBN 9788120805705.

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Sources

  • Maas, Philipp A. «A Concise Historiography of Classical Yoga Philosophy». En Eli Franco (ed.), Periodization and Historiography of Indian Philosophy. Viena: Sammlung de Nobili, 2013, pp. 53–90.

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