Yogadrstisamuccaya and Yogavinshika

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

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SECTION II :
A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE EIGHT
YOGA-VIEWPOINTS
एतत् त्रयमनाश्रित्य विशेषेणैतदुद्भवाः । योगदृष्टय उच्यन्ते अष्टौ सामान्यतस्तु ताः ॥१२॥ etat tragam anāšritya višesenaitadudbhavāḥ / g'ogadīstaza ucyante aştau sāmānyatas tu tāḥ 1/12/1.
Not depending on these three (i. e. on the above-spoken three vari. eties of yoga) for details (i.e. for a detailed derivation) I am here setting forth the yoga-viewpoints which as a matter of fact arise from those three themselves; generally speaking, these view-points are eight in all.
[12] In this verse Haribhadra submits that the eight yoga-viewpoints which he is now going to describe are parallel to the three grades of yoga he has just described but that he has not worked out his parallelism expressly. We have already hinted at the difficulty we find in working out this parallelism. In the context of the threefold gradation of yoga Haribhadra has talked of yoga dependent of scriptures and that dependent on self-exertion ; similarly, in the context of yoga dependent on scriptures he has talked of yoga accompanied by occasional acts of inadve rtance and that accompanied by few acts of inadvertance, while in the context of yoga dependent on self-exertion he has talked of yoga renouncing all kşayopaśamika dharmas and that renouncing all yoga. But there seems to be no mention either explict or implicit-of most of these considerations in the forthcoming account of the eight yoga-viewpoints.
मित्रा तारा बला दीप्रा स्थिरा कान्ता प्रभा परा। नामानि योगदृष्टीनां लक्षणं च निबोधत ॥१३॥ mitrā tārā bala dipra sthirā kānta prabha para / nāmāni fogadrspīnām lakṣaṇam ca nibodhala ||1311
Sihira. "Kannemer in these yo
The names of these yoga-viewpoints are Milrā, Tara, Bala, Dipra, Sthira, Kūnlū, Prabha and Parā. And one must know their respective definitions.
(13] In this verse Haribhadra nientions by name the eight yogaviewpoints he intends to describe. These names as well as the basic