- (1) The ten Upaniṣads.
- (2) Bhagavadgīta.
- (3) Mokṣadharmaparvan of the Mahābhārata
- (4) Viṣṇushasranāmastotra.
- (5) Manusmṛti.
- (6) Gautamadharmaśustra.
- (7) Pāṇiṇisūtra.
- (8) Mahābhāṣya.
- (9) Śābarabhāṣya.
- (10)Ślokavārtika and others.
Other Commentaries on the Vyāsabhāṣya.
A piece of interesting information furnished by the Vivaraṇa is the existence of an older commentary on the Vyāsabhāṣya, which is referred to by the words 'अन्येषां व्याख्यानाम्'. It may not be unreasonable to surmise from this that an older commentary or commentaries should have been in existence. However the name of either the commentary or of its author is not mentioned.
Among later commentaries may be mentioned the Tattvaviśāradī of Vācaspatimiśra and the Yogavārtika of Vijñānabhikṣu, both hitherto published.
Commentaries on the Yogasūtra.
There are also numerous printed commentaries on the Yogasūtra and among them the following deserve mention.
- (1) Vṛtti called Rājamārtāṇḍa by Bhojadeva.
- (2) Yogasūtradīpikā by Bhāvagaṇeśa disciple of Vijñānabhikṣu.
- (3) Vṛtti of Nāgoji Bhaṭṭa, which follows (2).
- (4) Vṛtti called Maṇiprabhā by Rāmānandayati.
- (5) Yogasiddhāntacandrikā by Nārāyaṇatīrtha.
- (6) Sūtrārihabodhinī by the same author.
- (7) Vṛtti called Yogasudhākara by Sadāśivabrahmendrayati.
Manuscript material.
The present edition of the Yogasūtrabhāṣyavivaraṇa had to be based on the sole available manuscript of the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras, as our efforts to secure another manuscript for collation yielded no favourable result. And what is worse, even the manuscript on which the present edition is based was extremely defective, and at first sight it appeared almost impossible to present a correct version of the
