[INDOLOGY] Request for commentaries on YS

[David and Nancy Reigle]

 Dear Dhaval Patel,

I just noticed that a commentary of some importance is missing in the list
of 21 that you posted. It is of some importance because it is written by a
Jaina commentator: Yaśovijaya. It was first edited by Sukhlalji, *Yogadarśana
of Patañjali with Vṛtti by Yaśovijaya and Haribhadra's Yogaviṃśikā*, Agra
1922. I have not seen this edition, so the bibliographic data is uncertain.
I have only a 1991 reprint titled *Pātañjala Yogadarśana tathā Hāribhadrī
Yogaviṃśikā.* I also have a 2001 edition of it by Vairāgyarativijaya simply
titled *Pātañjalayogasūtrāṇi*, published by Pravachan Prakashan.

Best regards,

David Reigle
Colorado, U.S.A.

On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 2:55 PM David and Nancy Reigle <dnreigle at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Dhaval Patel,
>
> Another example of the need to consult improved editions of Yogasūtra
> commentaries is the Yogasiddhāntacandrika commentary by Nārāyaṇatīrtha.
> This was published in the Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series as work 35 in
> 1910-1911, which long remained the only available edition, and is currently
> the edition that is available online. But this edition is incomplete,
> lacking the commentary on chapter 4 from the end of verse 3 to the end of
> the chapter, i.e., verses 4-34. It also lacks the commentary on most of
> verse 23 of chapter 1, all of verses 24 and 25, and the beginning of verse
> 26. It abruptly resumes with the commentary on verse 26 in mid-paragraph of
> the commentary on verse 23, without indication (p. 22, line 11).
> Fortunately, in 2000 a critical edition by Vimala Karnatak was published in
> the Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series as work 108. It is complete.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David Reigle
> Colorado, U.S.A.
>
> On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 1:00 PM David and Nancy Reigle <dnreigle at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Dhaval Patel,
>>
>> If you just want to get an idea of what is in the various commentaries,
>> any edition will do. But if you need to do serious research, commentaries
>> that are well edited and accurately printed are necessary. In the case of
>> the Vyāsa commentary, several editions are available. About the early
>> editions, here is what James Haughton Woods wrote in the Preface to his
>> 1914 English translation (p. xi):
>>
>> "The most accessible and the most carefully elaborated of these books is
>> the one published in the Ānandāçrama Series and edited by Kāçīnātha Shā
>> strī Āgāçe. Variants from twelve manuscripts, mostly southern, are
>> printed at the foot of each page; and Bhojadeva's Vṛtti is appended;
>> also the text of the sūtras by itself and an index thereto. Another
>> edition, in the Bombay Sanskrit Series, by Rājarām Shāstrī Bodas, is
>> also an excellent piece of work. I have, however, made use of the edition
>> by Svāmi Bālarāma (Calcutta, Saṁvat 1947, A.D. 1890; reprinted in
>> Benares A.D. 1908) because it is based on northern manuscripts and because
>> of the valuable notes in the editor's *ṭippaṇa*."
>>
>> The edition by Svāmi Bālarāma was very hard to find. I finally had a
>> friend make a photocopy of the 1908 reprint at the Harvard University
>> Library, apparently the copy previously used by Woods. The Ānandāśrama
>> Series edition has been reprinted several times, but the reprints are
>> re-typeset, introducing new typographical errors. So I photocopied the
>> original 1904 edition at the University of Chicago Library. The original
>> 1892 Bombay Sanskrit Series edition was also hard to find in North America,
>> but I was able to photocopy it from the American Oriental Society Library
>> at the Yale University Library. Scans of all three are posted here, along
>> with a few other commentaries on the Yogasūtras:
>> http://prajnaquest.fr/blog/sanskrit-texts-3/sanskrit-hindu-texts/
>>
>> Since the Ānandāśrama Series edition was edited by Kāśīnātha Śāstrī Āgāśe
>> from twelve manuscripts, giving variant readings in footnotes, it is in
>> effect a critical edition. However, the first critical edition that was
>> called such is that by Vimala Karnatak, *Pātañjala-Yoga-Darśanam*, four
>> volumes, Varanasi: Banaras Hindu University & Ratna Publications, 1992. It
>> includes the commentaries by Vyāsa, Vācaspati-miśra, and Vijñāna-bhikṣu.
>> It also includes her own Hindi exposition.
>>
>> More recently the first volume of a critical edition by Philipp Maas was
>> published: *Samādhipāda: das erste Kapitel des Pātañjalayogaśāstra* *
>> zum ersten Mal kritish ediert = The first chapter of the
>> Pātañjalayogaśāstra* * for the first time critically edited*, Aachen:
>> Shaker, 2006. This is a very thorough critical edition of the Yogasūtras
>> and Vyāsa's commentary, together forming the *Pātañjalayogaśāstra*,
>> using all available sources. We anxiously await further volumes of this
>> definitive critical edition.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> David Reigle
>> Colorado, U.S.A.
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 10:12 PM Dhaval Patel via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear scholars,
>>>
>>> I am looking for published commentaries on Yogasutra. The attached work
>>> mentioned 21 such published Sanskrit commentaries in bibliography from page
>>> 55-57.
>>>
>>> I have been able to locate book 3 in this list.
>>> I would appreciate if any scholar can point to pdf or purchasable copy
>>> of any of the above work.
>>> Also any other Sanskrit commentaries on Yoga works would be welcome.
>>>
>>> Best wishes
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