The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

Author: Christopher Chapple
Yogi Ananda Viraj/
Publisher: Sri Satguru Publications
Year: 1990
Language: English
Pages: 140
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170302447

Description

This new translation, drawings its inspiration from both careful scholarship and yogic practice, offers innovative features in that it: provides a full grammatical analysis of each term used by Patanjali, including an analysis of word compounds. Emphasizes the style and flow of the central author, rather than deferring to later commentaries.

Includes a concise introduction, surveying earlier scholarship on the text and highlighting what the translators perceive to be its central theme: the process of subtilization. Uses consistent translation of Sanskrit terms such as artha (purpose) and visaya (condition), whereas prior translations have often given more than one translation for the same Sanskrit word.

Selectively retains technical vocabulary in the original, thus challenging the reader to expand his or her linguistic horizons by assimilating Sanskrit terms such as purusa, prakrit, guna and dharma. A Sanskrit word index and Bibliography of prior translations are included.

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Continuous Translation

Grammatical Abbreviations

Samadhi-pada

Sadhana-pada

Vibhuti-pada

Kaivalya-pada

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX OF SANSKRIT TERMS