Patañjali
Mahābhāṣya (The Great Commentary)
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Mahābhāṣya (The Great Commentary)
व्याकरणमहाभाष्य (Vyākaraṇa-Mahābhāṣya)

A commentary in dialogic prose on Pāṇini's grammar (Aṣṭādhyāyī) and on Kātyāyana's critical remarks. It discusses the aims of grammatical study, the eternity of the word, the relation between word and meaning and the notion of sphoṭa, and defends or corrects hundreds of rules. Its examples are a historical source on Śuṅga India. It was the supreme authority of Sanskrit grammar, commented on by Bhartṛhari, Kaiyaṭa and Nāgeśa.
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Authorship note
Undisputed work of the grammarian Patañjali (mid-2nd century BCE). It is recorded as attributed in this entry because its author is, for most scholars (Woods, Renou, White), a different person from the yoga Patañjali; their identity is traditional and was defended by Dasgupta and some Indian authors.
Editions and translations
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English
Patañjali
Patañjali's Vyākaraṇa-Mahābhāṣya (serie de secciones traducidas)
The Conscious LibraryPatañjali's Vyākaraṇa-Mahābhāṣya (serie de secciones traducidas)
University of Poona, 1968
Translation: S. D. Joshi y J. A. F. Roodbergen
Traducción por secciones (āhnika) publicada desde 1968
Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्
Patañjali
The Vyâkaraṇa-Mahâbhâshya of Patañjali (3 vols.)
The Conscious LibraryThe Vyâkaraṇa-Mahâbhâshya of Patañjali (3 vols.)
Government Central Book Depôt, Bombay, 1880
Translation: Franz Kielhorn (edición)
Publicado entre 1880 y 1885; edición de referencia, dominio público
Patañjali
Śrīmadbhagavatpatañjalimuniviracitaṃ Pātañjalaṃ Mahābhāṣyam
The Conscious LibraryŚrīmadbhagavatpatañjalimuniviracitaṃ Pātañjalaṃ Mahābhāṣyam
Vāṇīvilāsa Prakāśana, 1987
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
- Revision of Caraka's treatise (lost)
- Pātañjalatantra (medical treatise)
- Nidānasūtra (aphorisms on Vedic metre)
- Paramārthasāra (The Essence of Supreme Truth)
Sources
- Kielhorn, Franz (ed.). The Vyâkaraṇa-Mahâbhâshya of Patañjali. 3 vols. Bombay: Government Central Book Depôt, 1880–1885 (Bombay Sanskrit Series).
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