Book Title: Anekantajay patakakhyam Prakaranam Part 2
Author(s): Haribhadrasuri, Munichandrasuri
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
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INTRODUOTION
The last topic is the exposition of the four types of yogins. It points out the qualifications of persons entitled to study yoga-sastra,
The entire work is commented upon by the author himself.
The perse beginning with grezia Hütte reminds one of Bhagavadgītä (X, 4). Dharmabindu (IV, 3) is quoted in the svopajña com. (p. 4a) of the tenth verse of this work and Yoganirnaya in this com. (p. 2a) on the first verse. Further, in this svopajña com. (p. 6a) on Yogadrstisamuccaya Patañjali, Bhadanta Bhāskara and Bandhu Bhagavaddatta are mentioned, Besides, in this com. Yogacārya' occurs in several places e. g. on pp. 5a, 7a, 75 & 10a (the com. on v. 14, 19, 22 & 35). This is a Jaina ācārya no doubt; but who he is is not known.
(55) Yogabindu' This is a small treatise in Sanskrta in 527 verses composed in Anuştubh metre. It deals with spiritualism (adhyatman). The specific contents of Yogabindu are: refutation of the Mahesavādins and the Puruşādvaitins, prowess of yoga, its background such as pürasevā etc., five types of anusthāna, eulogy of scriptures, three karanas-yathāpravrtti etc., and attainment of right faith, virati (abstinence from sinful activities) and liberation. So far as these contents are concerned there is some affinity between this work and Yoga drstisamuccaya. But the former differs from the latter in its treatment of spiritual progress. When does this progress commence? The answer supplied by Yogabindu is that the spiritual development synchronizes with the lessening of the powers of infatuation, and that the former gains more and
This along with a com. by an incognito is edited by the late Dr. Suali and is published by the Jaina Dharma Pragäraka Sabhā in 1911 A.D. These two along with Yogadīstisamuccaya and its com. by Haribhadrs have been published by Jaina-grantha-prakasaka-gabhā 48 Nog. 25 & 24 in 1940 A. D. The learned aditor, the late Dr. Swali has himself stated in his preface that the numbering of the verses must be increased by one after v. 352, this number having been repeated twice. It is a very good thing that he has furnished us with an alphabetical index of the verses occurring in the text as well as the com,
