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Siddha-siddhanta-paddhati of Goraknath himself. But the learned editress of this collection has placed before the public the full text of that work based on a copy of a MSat Jodhpur and added comparative notes based on the copies of two other MSS. obtained from Hardwar and Tanjore. The language of the text is ungrammatical at places. But that is a usual feature of almost all the works of that sect as noted by Dr. Kaviraj in his Preface to the GSS. Such inaccuracies have not escaped the notice of Dr. Kalyani and she has wisely drawn attention to some of them by suggesting emendations thereof in brackets. The authenticity of that work is vouched for not only by the fact of the authors of the said previously-published works having incorporated extracts therefrom in the said works but also by the fact that Aufrecht has in his Catalogus Catalogorum mentioned it as one of the 9 works ascribed to Goraksanatha. Another of those works is the Yogamarthanda. It too forms part of this collection. These two supplement each other because whereas the SSP. besides mentioning the characteristics of an Avadhuta Yogi who is fit to be a Guru, works out the full details of the Pinda-Brahmanda equation, which is the very foundation of the Siddhanta of the Siddhas but mentions only the bare out lines of the Astanga-yoga, which is recommended as the modus operandi for the actual realisation of that equality and for the attainment of the Siddhis as the fruit of having meticulously gone through that hard discipline, the YM. omits the theory of the equation but supplies the full details of the constituents of the said Yoga. There is a third work in this collection, namely Amaraugha-prabodha, purporting to have been composed by the same author. Although I cannot VOuch for its authen icity as it is not one of the nine mentioned by Aufrecht and as I do not remember to have seen extracts made from it in any other work, I can recommend its study for the knowledge of the inter-relation between Mantra-yoga, Laya-yoga, Hatha yoga and Raja-yoga, the methods to be followed in the practice of each of them and the indispensability of the last to those who are anxious to see concrete results flowing from the practice of any kind of the first three varieties, etc.
Besides the above three there is in this collection a fourth work in Sanskrit named Yogavisaya. In verse 7 thereof its
