From: Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei@uchicago.edu>
Cc: Indology List <indology@list.indology.info>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 12:25:00 -0700
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] khyā/khyāti

On 20 December 2016 at 04:41, Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei@uchicago.edu> wrote:
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Me too. I would also be interested in any studies of the presumably related term prasaṅkhyāna (= "sattvapuruṣānyatākhyāti" PYŚ) that is a keyword in the Pātañjalayogaśāstra. I am aware of

Endo, K. Mayeda, S.; Matsunami, Y.; Tokunaga, M. & Marui, H. (Eds.) "Prasaṃkhyāna in the Yogabhāṣya" in The Way to Liberation: Indological Studies in Japan, Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2000, 75-89.

Best,
Dominik

Dear Dominik

See pp. 74–80 of Jonathan Bader's Meditation in Śaṅkara's Vedānta. There he

- contrasts prasaṅkhyāna with the almost synonymous term pratisaṅkhyāna (famously the topic of the third chapter of Śaṅkara's Upadeśasāhasrī)

and

- discusses the use of the term prasaṃkhyāna in classical Yoga, Advaita Vedānta and Kālidāsa.

khyāti in sattvapuruṣānyatākhyāti of course has a different sense from that which it has in the khyātivāda that Matthew was speaking of: erroneous cognition in the latter, correct cognition/discernment in the former.

Best

Alex

Alex Watson

Professor of Indian Philosophy

Ashoka University

https://ashokauniversity.academia.edu/AlexWatson