[INDOLOGY] Request for commentaries on YS

[David and Nancy Reigle]

Dear Philipp,

Thank you very much for your clarifications. They are very helpful. Always
glad to learn more about these texts from your expert knowledge of them.

I understand from your writings that all printed editions of the
Pātañjalayogaśāstra transmit the vulgate or "northern version." The
"southern version" is at present only accessible by way of your critical
edition of the first chapter, and in part by way of the Vivaraṇa by Śaṅkara.

You also point out that the 1917 revised edition in the Bombay Sanskrit
Series gives some variant readings in the footnotes. The 1892 first edition
that I posted does not.

Best regards,

David Reigle
Colorado, U.S.A.

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 4:57 AM Philipp Maas <philipp.a.maas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear David,
>
>
>
> In your mail to the Indology list at 2 September you referred to the
> Ānandāśrama Series edition of the *Pātañjalayogaśāstra* (i.e., the
> Yogasūtra together with the so-called Yogabhāṣya) by Kāśīnātha Śāstrī Āgāśe
> as being “in effect a critical edition”, since it is based on twelve
> manuscripts, giving variant readings in footnotes. I fully agree with you
> that this edition is useful since it presents a fairly intelligible
> Sanskrit text and some variants from manuscripts and printed editions in
> footnotes. But the edition is still is not a critical edition in the modern
> academic usage of the term “critical edition”. Kāśīnātha Śāstrī Āgāśe did
> not explain the method he used to generate the main text of his edition,
> and he was apparently completely unaware of the fact that the different
> text versions transmitted in the four manuscript and four printed edition
> that he used for the PYŚ are the result of changes that occurred during
> the history of the transmission of the PYŚ in writing. For a more
> comprehensive characterization of this edition, see the introduction to my
> critical edition of the Samādhipāda of the PYŚ (Maas 2006
> <https://www.academia.edu/210280/Sam%C4%81dhip%C4%81da_Das_erste_Kapitel_des_P%C4%81ta%C3%B1jalayoga%C5%9B%C4%81stra_zum_ersten_Mal_kritisch_ediert._The_First_Chapter_of_the_P%C4%81ta%C3%B1jalayoga%C5%9B%C4%81stra_for_the_First_Time_Critically_Edited>,
> to which you kindly referred) on p. xxiii– xxiv. In any case, all
> manuscripts and printed editions at  Āgāśe's  disposal transmit a fairly
> similar text, i.e. the vulgate version of the PYŚ. Not a single witness
> used by Āgāśe transmits the "Southern Version" of the PYŚ which
> frequenlty has a better text quality than the vulgate (see see my article
> “On the written transmission of the Pātañjalayogaśāstra” here
> <https://www.academia.edu/212613/On_the_Written_Transmission_of_the_P%C4%81ta%C3%B1jalayoga%C5%9B%C4%81stra>
> ).
>
>
>
> The edition of the PYŚ by Vimala Kanartaka (1992, No. 21 in Maas 2006)
> that you mention, is also not a critical edition in any technical sense of
> the word. The main text in Karnataka’s edition is virtually a reproduction
> of the main text in the edition by Nārāyaṇamiśra (Varanasi 1971, no. 15. in
> Maas 2006) with only 11 deviation in the first chapter. As a comparison of
> the variant reading that Kanartaka reported in the footnotes of her edition
> with the original witnesses shows, her apparatus is not very reliable (see
> Maas 2006: xxxi f.).
>
>
>
> With best wishes,
>
>
>
> Philipp
> __________________________
>
> Dr. Philipp A. Maas
> Research Associate
> Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften
> Universität Leipzig
> ___________________________
>
> https://spp1448.academia.edu/PhilippMaas
>
>
> Am So., 2. Sep. 2018 um 21:01 Uhr schrieb David and Nancy Reigle via
> INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>:
>
>> 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.
>>
>


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