Dvadasharnaychakram Part 4

Author(s): Mallavadi Kshamashraman, Labdhisuri
Publisher: Chandulal Jamnadas Shah

Page 95

The commentator has mentioned in one place even "Yogasastra" by way of a comparative evidence. The author of 'Yogasutra' is Patanjali, a great sage, One should not commit a mistake of believing that this very Acarya is the originator of Yoga, For, according to the following observation of Yajnavalkya' 'Smrti, Hiranyagarbha is the originator of Yoga , :
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Patanjali is however an expounder of Yoga.' Vacaspati Misra suggests this very thing in his Tattvavasaradi' (a commentator on Yogasutra) while elucidating' STT TETTH the first aphorism of Yogasutra by stating 'TEFT TAHTTIECH' According to the Indian tradition, the author of "Yogasutra' and Patanjali, the author of 'mahabhasya, a grammatical work, are one and the same individual. Even though there are in the fourth 'pada' of Yogasutra' aphorisms 1, 14 & 15 which repute vijnanavada,' yet 'vijnanavada" has originated prior to maitreya and ASanga. As regards the date, this Patanjali is a contemporary of King Puspamitra of Sumga dynasty.
King Puspamitra flourished in about B C 225, on this 'Yogasutra' is composed a 'bhasya' named as "Vyasabhasya.' This sage Vyasa is different from the great sage Vyasa the author of 'Puranas. So it is difficult to say as to which Vyasa composed this 'bhasya.' Historians say that this Vyasa has not flourished prior to the third century of the Vikrama era. The following observation made in the bhasya on. Yogasutra' (III, 13), is met with even in the commentary on Nayacakra':
" संस्थानमादिमद्धर्ममात्रं शब्दादीनां विनाश्यविनाशिनाम् एवं लिादिमद्धर्ममात्रं सत्त्वादीनां गुणानां विनाश्याविनाशिनाम् तस्मिन् विकारसंज्ञा"
(It is difficult to decide as to whether this original source of this statement made in the third spoke is 'Yogabhasya' or some other (work). Since this observation of Yogabhasya is made by way of a quotation, it seems that there is no objection in believing it to be as belonging to 'Yogabhasya) and no other work.
The commentator has cited Tandulaveyaliya' as an authority. This work is well known as 'Payanna in the Jaina world, Hence this work is anterior to Simhasuri Gani Ksamasramana in date. This work comprising 500 verses, deals with a beautiful description of the following topics - the description which creates 'vairagay' (absence of wordly desires and appetite) embronic condition of a 'mundane being and ten conditions following its birth, ossus, structure varieties of the shape of the body, visramas of time, the number of veins etc.,
The description of the body, various conditions of a mundane being such as its embryonic condition etc. can be compared with that given in 'Susruta. The author of this work (Tandvlaveyaliya) This it is not known but there is no doubt regarding its antiquity. The narne 'Tandulaveyaliya' occurs in Jinadasa Gani mahattara's 'curni on 'Dasavaikalika' According to modern historians this mahattara flourished in Vikrama Samyat 799 whereas according to the old ones sometime prior to Saka Samvat 500, This name occurs in 'too.
1'योगेन चित्तस्य पदेन वाचां, मलं शरीरस्य च वैद्यकेन। योऽपाकरोत् तं प्रवरं मुनीनां पतंजलिं प्राचलिरानतोऽस्मि 2. Vide " Bharatiya darsana" Page No. 349 3/4 'e gras ra:
(3-2-123 ) and'पुष्पमित्रो यजते याजका याजयन्ति'
(3-1-26)