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The Yoga-System of Patañjali

Harvard Oriental Series, vol. 17

By Patañjali

First written c. 325–425 CE (debated)

About this book

Woods’s scholarly translation of the Yoga Sūtras together with the commentary attributed to Vyāsa and Vācaspati Miśra’s sub-commentary, the Tattvavaiśāradī. It remains a standard English rendering of the classical commentarial tradition of Yoga.

The edition

Title
The Yoga-System of Patañjali: Harvard Oriental Series, vol. 17
Translated by
James Haughton Woods
Publisher
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Year
1914

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Period

Late Antiquity200 CE to 700 CE

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