The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali
With the Commentary of Bhoja Raja and an English Translation (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali: With the Commentary of Bhoja Raja and an English Translation<br><br>It also quotes Badari, a teacher, and Bdarayana, probably a grandson of Badari, and author of the Vedanta Stras or later Mimans'a, as also of a commentary on the Toga Stra. The Vedanta in its turn refutes adverse doctrines of all the five, and thereby admits their pre-existence. This state of facts can be reconciled only by the supposition that the different dogmas and the schools which cherished them existed for a long time before the dogmas were written down in the aphoristic form in which we have them now. Oral transmission must have been the principal means of their preservation for a long time. There might have been also text-books before, but they were set aside by the very complete systems which the new texts produced, and in the new systems the refutation of adverse opinions very naturally included all the theories which were prevalent at the time when the books were compiled, and not the theories only of the time when the original dogmas were first promulgated. This is also obvious in other ways. In the case of the Sankhya Stra, though it is usually attributed to Kapila, one of the mind-born sons of Brahm, we find it refers to an "ancient teacher" (A'charya, A. V, 31), and to "venerable preceptors" (A. VI, 69). Sanandana and Panchas'ikha are cited by name (V, 32, and VI, 69). Kapila is then said to have taught his doctrine to A'sur, who is described both as a brother and a pupil of the teacher.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.