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Yogabhāṣya (Commentary on the Yoga) — Patañjali

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Yogabhāṣya (Commentary on the Yoga)

योगभाष्य (Yogabhāṣya, también Vyāsabhāṣya)

Patañjali como encarnación de Ādiśeṣa (imagen de culto)
byPatañjali

The prose commentary that accompanies the aphorisms in all manuscripts and without which many of them are unintelligible. It develops the psychology of mental states and latent impressions, quotes earlier masters of Sāṃkhya and yoga such as Pañcaśikha and Jaigīṣavya, and argues with the Buddhist schools. All later exegesis —Vācaspati Miśra, the Vivaraṇa, Vijñānabhikṣu— in fact comments on the combined aphorisms and commentary.

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Authorship note

Tradition ascribes it to Vyāsa, the name of the legendary compiler of the Vedas; Woods (1914) dated it between 650 and 850. Bronkhorst (1984) and Maas (2006, 2013) argue that the commentary is by Patañjali himself and that sūtra and bhāṣya form a single work, the Pātañjalayogaśāstra, as the colophons say. Others (Bryant) keep the traditional distinction.

Editions and translations

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English

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

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

    State University of New York Press, 1983

    Translation: Swāmi Hariharānanda Āraṇya; P. N. Mukerji

    ISBN 9780873957298

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

    Harvard University Press, 1914

    Translation: James Haughton Woods

    Dominio público

Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्

  • Samādhipāda (edición crítica del primer capítulo)

    Shaker, 2006

    Translation: Philipp André Maas

Français

  • Le Yoga-Sūtra de Patañjali. Le Yoga-Bhāṣya de Vyāsa

    Les Belles Lettres, 2008

    Translation: Michel Angot

    ISBN 9782251720500

Other works by Patañjali

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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