History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s21.60
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s21.60
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From the above it is clear that Yoga-Yājñavalkya and Bṛhad-yogi-Yājñavalkya are entirely different works and that the latter is comparatively an early work, as quotations from it are cited by Vācaspatimiśra (9th century) and Aparārka. The latter work contains numerous quotations from the Bhagavadgītā and the Manusmṛti and a few from the Yājñavalkyasmṛti (the verse about the 14 vidyāsthānas is the same in both). So it must have been composed between 200 and 700 A. D.