[INDOLOGY] Request for commentaries on YS

[Allen Thrasher]

Jim Nye of the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago, who got many of the Anandasrama Series books microfilmed, told me that sometimes Anandasrama when doing a second edition of a text, would print a totally new edition rather than reprinting the old one.  David Reigle indicates he checked the reissues of Agase's edition and the different readings are errors stemming from fresh typesetting.  But if one is looking (or searching in online catalogs) other 2nd or further editions of Anandasrama publications, it might be wise to make sure they weren't fresh, independent, editions rather than mere reprintings.
Allen   On Sunday, September 2, 2018, 3:01:30 PM EDT, David and Nancy Reigle via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> 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 Shāstrī 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 Āgāśefrom 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 Pātañjalayogaśāstrazum ersten Mal kritish ediert = The first chapter of the Pātañjalayogaśāstrafor the first time critically edited, Aachen: Shaker, 2006. This is a very thorough critical edition of theYogasūtras 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 ReigleColorado, 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.
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