Yogadrstisamuccaya and Yogavinshika

Author(s): K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
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literal meaniog of the word jina is victor and its intended meaning-i.e. · the meaniøg the Jajna tradition intended to attach to it - is one who gains
victory over the defilements of cbaracter like attachment, aversion etc. Now ss understood by Haribladsa the word yogin too means almost the same thing (for the derelopment of an ideal human presonality. after all consists in a gradual elimination of the cefilements of character)- so that according to bim to call somebody a supreme jina will be equivalent to calling him a supremic yogin. Lastly, we should note that in the body of his present enquiry Haribbadra is going to divide yogips into eight grades and by way of a preliminary survey he divides them into three grades (expressly saying that the eightfold gradation is but a derivation from the threefold one). 'Poga by intention' is the first grade of yoga in the threefold gradation while 'viewpoint'is Haribhadra's word for grade in the eightfold gradation. Therefore, wben Haribbadra describes Mabāvila as 'the supreme victor' and 'one free from all bodily, mental and vocal exertion' he only means that Mahāvīra is a supreme jogin (in Haribhadra's sense of the word), when he describes him as 'one accessible only to the yogins' he ineans that Mahāpira's greatness can be properly appreclated only by a yogin (again in Haribhadra's sense of the word), when he says that he is himself taking recourse to 'yoga by intention' he means that as a yogin he himself belongs to the first grade of the threefold gradation, when he says that he is going to narrate yoga as viewed from diverse viewpoints be meaps that he is goivg to offer an account of yoga in its eightfold gradation.
(b) The Three Types of Yoga: . . ..garagintai fazanafialna i
योगिनामुपकाराय व्यक्तं योगप्रसङ्गतः ॥२॥ . ihaivecchädiyogānāṁ svarūpam abhidhiyale / yoginam upakärāya vyaktań yogaprasngataḥ 1/211
For the benefit of yogins. I may expressly describe the patuse of vogas like yoga by intention' and others in this very context, this being so because my proposed treatment of yoga provides an occasion for such a description.
[2] In this verse Haribhadra promises to discuss that threefold gradation of yoga where 'yoga by intention' constitutes the first grade. He also hints -- and he will stresss the same point at the end of his present discussion that an investigation into the threefold gradation of yoga is likely to throw light on the eightfold gradation of it which