History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c94.129

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The Āpastambadharmasūtra (I. 8 23. 3-6) quotes a verse 'The total destruction of dosas (taints) is due to Yoga in this life; a wise man after having expelled all dosas that cause harm to all beings reaches peace (moksa)' and then it sets out fifteen dosas such as anger, ecstatic joy, greed, hypocrisy, the destruction of which is due to Yoga and enumerates the qualities that are opposites of the dosas. This shows that long before the 4th or 5th century B. C. Yoga as a discipline of the mind had been well developed.