Essay name: Yoga-sutra with Bhashya Vivarana (study)
Author:
Susmi Sabu
Affiliation: University of Kerala / Department of Sanskrit
This essay studies the enduring and relevance of Yoga in India, highlighting its evolution from a comprehensive philosophy to primarily a physical practice. It further underscores the importance of studying Yoga texts to understand its historical trajectory. Special attention is given to the Patanjala Yogasutra Bhashya Vivarana, a significant work attributed to Adi Shankaracharya.
Chapter 3 - The Authorship Problem of Patanjala-yogasutra-bhashya-vivarana
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the text would have won more attention than that won by other commentaries of Y.S. Another evidence is that the style of 艢a峁卥ar膩c膩rya profusely found in his works is lacking in PYSBV. G.C. Pande, who studied 艢a峁卥ar膩c膩rya in detail has described the style of 艢ankara as 鈥榝luent and lucid, simple and profound, always focused and relevant, without any rhetorical flourishes of pedantry, logical in reasoning but without any scholastic formalism." A general reader of PYSBV can find the style of Vivara峁嘺k膩ra inferior to those of the famous works of 艢ankar膩c膩rya. ,124 The style of PYSBV is not in consonants with that of 艢ankar膩c膩rya. In this context, one can cite the salutary verses 125 given in PYSBV. They deserve less poetical value. According
to T.S. Rukmani- the two benedictory verses and the set of verses
at the end are inferior in quality and stylistically defective (i.e.,
there is chandobhanga). The conclusion is that the author of B.S.
SBh., could not have written such inferior Sanskrit prose and
composed such bad verse. In the poetic style of 艢ankar膩c膩rya
126 the verses flow uninterruptedly with a magnetic rhythm.
127 It is
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