History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c94.179.2

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28 and 29) by Shri P. C. Diwanji and now available in book form (1954). This last is in the form of a dialogue between the great yogin Yājñavalkya and Gārgī (who is identified with Maitreyī by Shri Diwanji on pp. 27-28 of his ed. of 1954) and sages and learned brāhmanas Yājñavalkya narrates what he learnt from Brahmā. On Yāj. III. 110 the Dīpakalikā of Śūlapāni remarks that the Yogaśāstra referred to is called 'Yogiyājñavalkya'. But this again leads to uncertainty as both the works viz that published by Kaivalyadhama and the one by Mr. Diwanji are so referred to as Yogī (or Yoga) Yājñavalkya in several digests Mr Diwanji²³⁰⁶ tries hard to establish that the work published by him 'has a better claim to be adjudged the specific work on Yoga referred to in Yāj III. 113.' I think that the claim is not at all justified. The work edited by Mr Diwanji no doubt contains a good deal of Yoga knowledge; while the work published by Kaivalyadhama also contains a good deal of Yoga material, though not as much as the work edited by Mr. Diwanji contains. It would be irrelevant to discuss here all the points made by Mr. Diwanji. The present author is convinced that the work sponsored by Mr. Diwanji is not the work referred to by Yājnavalkya (in his smrti III. 110). It is a compilation of a later period. Some striking matters alone may be pointed out to show that the Yoga-Yājñavalkya could not have been the work of the author of the Bṛhadāraṇyaka and the Yogaśāstra (as stated in Yāj III.