History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c94.180

v7.c94.180

²³⁰⁵ ज्ञेयं चारण्यकमहं यदादित्यादवाप्तवान्। योगशास्त्रं च मत्प्रोक्तं ज्ञेयं योगमभीप्सता॥ या III 110, याज्ञवल्क्यो महायोगी दृष्ट्वात्र तपसा हरम्। चकार तन्नियोगेन कायशास्त्रमनुत्तमम्॥ कूर्म I 25. 44 (=B I ed. p. 269) एह्यास्स्व व्याख्यास्यामि ते व्याचक्षाणस्य तु मे निदिध्यासस्वेति। ... आत्मा वा अरे द्रष्टव्य श्रोतव्यो मन्तव्यो निदिध्यासितव्यः। बृह उप II. 4 4–5 Compare बृह उप IV 5 5–6 for the same words and वे. सू IV 1. 1 for this Br Up passage as the basis along with छा. उप VIII 7. 1 य आत्मापहतपाप्मा ... सोऽन्वेष्टव्य. स विजिज्ञासितव्यः, of that topic in V S It is not unlikely that Yāj III 110 is an early interpolation, but since all commentators from Viśvarūpa downwards treat it as authentic, one has to accept it as a genuine part of Yāj smṛti until some explicit evidence to the contrary is forthcoming.