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Sagarmal Jain : The impact of other Yoga-Systems on Hemacandra's Yoga Sastra
also follows the Jaina canonical and traditional works. Except some of the bodily postures, there is noting new in this chapter, which can be considered as an impact of other Jaina and non-Jaina Acāryas and their works the fifth chapter of yoga-sāstra is devoted to prāņāmyāma. In this fifth chapter we find the direct impact of Patañgali's Yoga-sūtra as well as Hatha-yoga pradipika and Gherandasaṁhita on Hemacandra. In its first verse Hemacandra mentions that “having obtained mastery on various postures Patañjali and others advocated the necessity of prāņāyama (breath-control) for securing meditational power, as otherwise there will be no control over the mind”. Here Hemacandra advocated the necessity of Prāņāyāma, while in earlier Jaina tradition prānāyāma has not been accepted as an essential limb of Yogic-sādhanā. Though in this fifth chapter Hemacandra gives a very detail account regarding the Prāņāyāma, but in the sixth chapter of his Yogaśāstra he him-self rejected the necessity of prāņāyāma, he writes”.
तत्राप्नोति मनःस्वास्थ्यं प्राणायामैः कदर्थितम। प्राणस्यायमने पीड़ा तस्यां स्याच्चित्तविप्लवः ।।४।। पूरणे कुम्भने चैव रेचने च परिश्रमः । चित्तसंक्लेशकरणान् मक्तेः प्रत्यूहकारणम् ।।५।।
Mind does not get stability if it is put to trouble through exercises of the breath-control because while controlling the breath the body also undergoes discomfort and distress, and this again becomes the cause of mental imbalance. Inhaling, suspending, and exhaling involve hard labors. This, on its part, produces grief; and the aggrieved state of mind and thus really blocks the way to salvation.
On this account we can say that the fifth chapter of Yoga-śāstra of Hemacandra is fully borrowed from Patañjali's Yogasutra and Hath yogapradipikā. But being an Acārya of Jain-tradition in the sixth chapter of Yoga-śāstra he rejected the necessity of prānāyāma, because it was not accepted as an essential feature of Jaina-yogasādhanā in Jaina canonical works as well as even by Haribhadra, a
