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YOGA-SATAKA
Translator's Note
The following translation of Haribhadra's Yoga-Sataka is primarily meant to be a paraphrase of the Prakrit Gätbås that constitute the original text, but some use has also been made of the valuable supplementations provided by the author in bis Sanskrit autocommentary. Barring a few unimportant exceptions, the material inserted within brackets, only this much material and the whole of this material is derived from the autocommentary. The major exceptions occur at those places where a bracketed portion expresses the translator's own urge to supply a point of clarification, the minor exceptions need no special mention.
In preparing this translation a substantial source of belp has been Dr. Indukala Jhaveri's Gujrati edition of Yoga - Śataka (published by Gujarat Vidyasabba, Abmedabad) which, apart from containing an illuminating Introduction, offers us a fairly accurate translation and a thorougbly competent elucidation of the Gathas in question. In most cases inaccuracies in Dr. Jhaveri's translation had cropped up because a correct reading of the text was not available to her. It is only as a result of the discovery (made after Dr. Jhaveri's edition was out) of the Sanskrit autocommentary that we are in possession of an almost entirely correct reading of the text. In any case, the autocommentary enables us to correct all those parts of Dr. Jhaveri's translation where the author's intention had been misunderstood or but partly understood. That there must be such cases was only to be expected, that there are so few of them is really surprising,
1. Having bowed to Mahavira, a lord of yogins (i. e. one who helps and protects those practising yoga ) and one who has well demonstrated as to what properly constitutes yoga, I proceed on to narrate the essentials of yoga in line with the scriptural treatment of the same.
2. From the definitive standpoint yoga (lit. that which connects ) has been here described by the lords of yogins as the coming togetber (in one soul) of the three (noble ) attributes, viz. right understanding etc. (i.e. right understanding, right faith, right conduct); for it is this
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| SR No. | 002645 |
| Book Title | Yogshatakam |
| Original Sutra Author | Haribhadrasuri |
| Author | Punyavijay |
| Publisher | L D Indology Ahmedabad |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 144 |
| Language | Sanskrit |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari & Yoga |
| File Size | 5 MB |