History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c94.145

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There are numerous English translations of the Yogasūtra (*wholly or partly*) and of the Bhāṣya and Vācaspati's Commentary, such as that by Dr. Rajendralal Mitra with text of Y. S., bhāṣya and com. Rājamārtaṇḍa and an appendix (p. 218-227) noting 150 mss. on Yoga (B. I. ed. 1883); Swami Vivekānanda's 'Rājayoga' (Vol. I. of collected works, ed. of 1946) pp. 200-304, which translates and explains all the sūtras; Dr. Ganganath Jha's translation (Bombay 1907); translation by Rama Prasad (pub. by Panini office, Allahabad 1910); translation by Prof. J. H. Woods (in the Harvard Oriental Series, 1914) who read with the present author in Bombay for some months in 1909, Geraldine Coster in 'Yoga and Western Psychology' (London, 1934) translates and explains many of Patañjali's sūtras (*pp.* 100-131); 'Aphorisms of Yoga' done into English by Shree Purohita Swami and Intro. by W. B. Yeats (Faber & Faber, London, 1937) with figures of Siddhāsana, Baddhapadmāsana, Paścimottānāsana, Bhujangāsana, Viparītakaraṇī and Matsyendrāsana; 'Bhāratīya Mānasa-śāstra' or 'Pātañjala-yoga-darśana' (Sanskrit text, with a table of contents, errata, Introduction of 232 pages, and meaning and explanation pp. 787 in Marathi) in all 1051 pages, edited by Krishnaji Keshav Kolhatkar and published by K. B. Dhavale, Bombay, 1951—a very exhaustive and useful work, though rather diffuse and marred by a few uncritical statements.