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@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 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 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@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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