History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s56: 69. Yogloka
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s56
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69. Yogloka
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Yogloka like Jitendriya and Bālaka is a writer about whom we know only from the works of Jīmūtavāhana and Raghunandana. He is the last of the series of writers enumerated in one place by the Kālaviveka as having dealt with the subject of *kāla* (vide note 611 above). The Vyavahāra-mātṛkā of Jīmūtavāhana very frequently⁶³⁰ cites the views of Yogloka and generally twits him with thinking himself as being a logician or a new-fangled (*nava-tārkikaṁ-manya*) logician. Both in the Kālaviveka and the Vyavahāramātṛkā Yogloka is generally cited for being refuted (e. g. pp. 457-58, 465, 483 of the Kālaviveka). It is only very rarely that Jīmūtavāhana agrees with Yogloka (as on p. 369 of the Kālaviveka). From certain passages of the Kālaviveka it follows that Yogloka composed two works, one called Bṛhad-Yogloka (larger work) and the other styled Svalpa-Yogloka (a smaller-work).⁶³¹ It appears that Yogloka was later than Śrīkara and accepted certain illustrations given by the latter.⁶³² The Vyavahāratattva of Raghunandana informs us that like Śrīkara and Bālaka, Yogloka held the view that twenty years' adverse possession of immoveables conferred ownership (vide note 624 above). The same work tells us that the Maithilas followed the view of Yogloka that the verse of Kātyāyana (yadyekadeśa-vyāptāpi... nṛṇām) was intended to apply to a case where a litigant threw down the challenge that if even one out of several items of property charged were brought home to him as having been stolen by him, he would restore all the items claimed.⁶³³
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⁶³⁰ Vide pp. 291, 293, 295, 310, 312, 313, 347.
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⁶³¹ योग्लोकेन तु स्वल्पबृहद्ग्रन्थभेदेन द्वयमेवोक्तं बलाबलनिरूपणाक्षमत्वात् । कालविवेक p. 365 ; तस्मान्भूत्सार्धार्मिककल्पितं योग्लोकस्य बृहद्ग्रन्थे प्रक्षिप्तम् । अस्यैव स्वल्प-ग्रन्थे अन्येषु च निबन्धेषु दर्शनाद् योग्लोकीयबृहद्ग्रन्थपुरातनपुस्तोलब्धभावात् । तस्मात्स्वयमेवैतद् योग्लोकेनापि बृहद्ग्रन्थे लिखितम् । कालविवेक p. 273; vide also pp. 177, 221 490 for references to योग्लोक.
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⁶³² यत्तु दुर्बलोदाहरणं तार्किकंमन्यस्य योग्लोकस्य मदीयेयं क्रमागता भूरिति भाषायां मदीयेयं दशवर्षभुज्यमानत्वात् इति श्रीकरोदाहरणस्वीकरणं तदसङ्गतम् । व्यवहारमातृका p. 302,
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⁶³³ व्यवहारतत्त्व p. 217 (Jivananda vol. II) 'न च यद्येषां मध्ये एकमपि मया गृहीतं विभावयसि तदा सर्वमेव दातव्यमिति प्रतिज्ञाविषयत्वमेकदेशविभावितत्वं वचनस्येति जोग्लोकमतानुसारिमैथिलमतं युक्तमिति वाच्यम्।'
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The foregoing establishes that Yogloka wrote at least on *kāla* and *vyavahāra* and composed two treatises on *kāla*.
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Jīmūtavāhana⁶³⁴ says that a predecessor of his styled Dīkṣita criticized a certain reading of Yogloka's, i. e. Yogloka preceded Dīkṣita, who was a predecessor of Jīmūtavāhana. Jīmūtavāhana further refers to ancient (*purātana*) mss. of Yogloka's work. Hence Yogloka must have preceded Jīmūtavāhana by at least a hundred years. He is later than Śrīkara (note 632 above). Therefore he must have flourished between 950-1050 A. D.
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⁶³⁴ श्रावण इति तु पठितं बोग्लोकेन तद्बहुष्वदर्शनाद् भवतीति दीक्षितेनोक्तम्। कालविवेक p. 280.
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- Kātyāyanasmṛti — Kātyāyana (smṛtikāra), Sanskrit