[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Religion and philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion) › [A History of Indian Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dasgupta-1922) › v2.c19.14 # A History of Indian Philosophy v2.c19.14 A History of Indian Philosophy v2.c19.14 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dasgupta-1922.v2.c19.14) The \*Yoga-vāsiṣṭha\* had a number of commentaries, and it was also summarized in verse by some writers whose works also had commentaries written upon them. Thus Advayāraṇya, son of Narahari, wrote a commentary on it, called \*Vāsiṣṭha-Rāmāyaṇa-candrikā\*. Ānandabodhendra Sarasvatī, pupil of Gaṅgādharendra Sarasvatī of the nineteenth century, wrote the \*Tātparya-prakāśa\*. Gaṅgādharendra also is said to have written a commentary of the same name. Rāmadeva and Sadānanda also wrote two commentaries on the work, and in addition to these there is another commentary, called \*Yoga-vāsiṣṭha-tātparya-saṃgraha\*, and another commentary, the \*Pada-candrikā\*, was written by Mādhava Sarasvatī. The names of some of its summaries are \*Bṛhad-yoga-vāsiṣṭha\*, \*Laghu-jñāna-vāsiṣṭha\*, \*Yoga-vāsiṣṭha-ślokāḥ\* and \*Yoga-vāsiṣṭha-saṃkṣepa\* by Gauḍa Abhinanda of the ninth century, \*Yoga-vāsiṣṭha-sāra\* or \*Jñāna-sāra\*, \*Yoga-vāsiṣṭha-sāra-saṃgraha\* and \*Vāsiṣṭha-sāra\* or \*Vāsiṣṭha-sāra-gūḍhārthā\* by Rāmānanda Tīrthā, pupil of Advaitānanda. The \*Yoga-vāsiṣṭha-saṃkṣepa\* of Gauḍa Abhinanda had a commentary by Ātmasukha, called \*Candrikā\*, and another called \*Saṃsāra-taraṇī\*, by Mummaḍideva. The \*Yoga-vāsiṣṭha-sāra\* also had two commentaries by Pūrṇānanda and Mahīdhara. Mr Sivaprasad Bhattacarya in an article on the \*Yoga-vāsiṣṭha-Rāmāyaṇa\* in the \*Proceedings of the Madras Oriental Conference of\* 1924 says that the \*Mokṣopāya-sāra\*, which is another name for the \*Yoga-vāsiṣṭha-sāra\*, was written by an Abhinanda who is not to be confused with Gauḍa Abhinanda. But he misses the fact that Gauḍa Abhinanda had also written another summary of it, called \*Yoga-vāsiṣṭha-saṃkṣepa\*. Incidentally this also refutes his view that the \*Yoga-vāsiṣṭha\* is to be placed between the tenth and the twelfth centuries. For, if a summary of it was written by Gauḍa Abhinanda of the ninth century, the \*Yoga-vāsiṣṭha\* must have been written at least in the eighth century. The date of the \*Yoga-vāsiṣṭha\* may thus be regarded as being the seventh or the eighth century. - [Previous: v2.c19.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dasgupta-1922.v2.c19.13) - [Next: v2.c19.s1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dasgupta-1922.v2.c19.s1.1) - [Up: v2.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dasgupta-1922.v2.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dasgupta-1922.v2.c19.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dasgupta-1922.v2.c19.14) · Pramāṇa