Further References To Vaisesika Sutra In Patanjala Yogasastra Vivarana

Author(s): A Wezler
Publisher: A Wezler

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FURTHER REFERENCES TO THE VAISESIKASUTRA
IN THE PATANJALAYOGASASTRAVIVARANA (Studies in the Patañjalayogaśāstravivarana III )
By
ALBRECHT WEZLER
1. Elsewhere attention was drawn to a quotation from the Vaisesi kasutra (=VS) found in the Patañjalayogaśāstravivarana ( PYSV), which was not recognized as such by the editors of the latter text: while examining this quotation, it was also shown that the author of the PYŚV - whose identity has to be regarded as not yet established? - was acquainted not only with the VS itself, but evidently also with an old commentary on it which seems not to be extant any longer, but is echoed, as it were, in Candrānanda's Vịtti,' at least to a certain degree.
In what follows, two more instances are presented and discussed where the author of the PYSV, though not quoting in the strict sense of the word from the VS, nevertheless clearly refers to it; and these references, too, have apparently not been noticed by the editors of the PYSV. My present aim is a double one: Firstly and generally I wish to keep alive the discussion about the PYSV, as this highly interesting text has not yet found the attention it no doubt deserves by itself, i e. quite apart from the provocative intricacies of the authorship problem COCO Scobacco
As for "Studies in the Patañjalayogasastravivarana I", entitled Philo. logical Observations on the so-called Patanjalayogasutrabhasyavivarana", cf. IIJ 25 (1983), pp. 17-40: "Studies, ... II", entitled "On the Quardruple Division of the Yogakästra, the Caturvyuhatva of the Cikitsasastra and the Four Noble Truths' of the Buddha", will be published in Indologien Taurinensia", most probably in 1984. The edition referred to is, of course : Patañjala-Yogasūtra-Bhāsya-Vivarana of Sankara Bhagavatpēda (MGOS No. 94). Madras 1952.
1. Viz. in my article " Remarks on the Definition of yoga' in the Vaisesikasutra". published in: Indological and Buddhist Studies. Volume in Honour of Professor J. W. DE JONG on bis Sixtieth Birthday, ed, by L. A. HERCUS et al., Canberra 1982, pp. 643-686.
2. Cf. Studies in the PYSVI" as well as the Appendix Notes on the Yogasatrabhasyavivarana'" in W. HALBFASS' monograph: Studies in Kumarila and Sankara, Reinbek 1983.
3. Cf. my article mentioned in fn. 1. - The edition referred to is, of course, Muni Sri JAMHUVIJAYAJI'S Vaidesikasutra of Kanada with the Commentary of Candrananda (GOS No. 136 ), Baroda 1961.
4. This was, by the way, also the first aim of W. HALBFASS in uding the Appendix, mentioned above in fn. 2, to his Studies in Kumarlla and Sankara,
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