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Regarding the nature of substances - 5.37. Apart from these two, there is a third sutra concerning the definition of substance in the Digambara Sutras - Sad Dravyalakṣaṇam - 5.29. These three sutras from the Digambara Sutras are completely present in the following Prakrit verse from Kundakunda's Pancāstikāya:
"Davvaṁ sallakkhaṇiyaṁ uppādavvayadhuvattasanjuttaṁ.
Guṇapajjayāsayaṁ vā jaṁ taṁ bhaṇṇanti savvaṇhū." (10) Besides this, the textual and substantive significant similarity between the famous works of Kundakunda and the Tattvārtha Sūtra is indeed not incidental.
(b) The creator of the 'Yoga Sūtra' is believed to be Patanjali. It cannot be firmly stated whether the author of the Mahābhāṣya, Patanjali, is the same as the Yoga Sūtra author or if it is another Patanjali. If the authors of the Mahābhāṣya and the Yoga Sūtra are the same, then the Yoga Sūtra can be considered to have been composed in the first or second century BCE. The exact time of the composition of the 'Vyāsa Bhāṣya' is also not definite, though there is no reason to consider it older than the third century BCE.
There is a considerable and attractive verbal and economic similarity between the Yoga Sūtra and its commentary, as well as the Tattvārtha Sūtras and their commentary. However, it is not possible to accurately state that one has influenced the other, since the Tattvārtha Sūtra and its commentary have inherited from ancient Jain Agama texts, while the Yoga Sūtra and its commentary have inherited from ancient Sāṅkhya, Yoga, and Buddhist traditions. Nevertheless, there is one place in the Tattvārtha commentary that is not found in Jain Agama texts up until this point but is available in the commentary on the Yoga Sūtra.
The earlier causes may also lead to a decrease in age, meaning there may or may not be a break; such discussions can be found in Jain Agama texts. However, to support the idea of age breaking in this discussion, the examples of wet cloth and dry grass are not found in the Agama texts but in the Tattvārtha commentary.
1. For a detailed introduction, see - Introduction to Hindu Yoga Philosophy, page 52 and onwards.