The University of Nalanda c7.85

c7.85

(1) This Pātañjali is not be confused with the Patañjali of the Mahābhāṣya, See Keith, o.c., p. 490. Keith says that the germs of yoga practices, meditation, etc., can be found in all religions, even in Buddhism and Jainism, though it is closely allied with Sāmkhya.
(2) Dutt., Ancient India, p. 320.
(3) Cf. Keith, o.c., p. 400, who calls Yoga "theistic Sāmkhya."
(4) Cf. Śaṅkara, Brahma Sūtra Bhāṣya, adhyāya II, pāda, 1, sūtra 3: "Yēna tu amśēna na virudhyētē, tēnēṣṭamēva sāmkhyayoga smṛtyoḥ-sāvakāśtvam." "And we quite acknowledge that the Sāmkhyayoga smṛtis, in that portion where they do not contradict the Vēda, to have a claim to authoritativeness."
(5) We have purposely refrained from ascribing the authorship of the system to Gotama or Aksapāda as done by Dutt (o.c.. p. 324) as their very existence is doubted by modern scholars, though even Chinese and Japanese sources attribute the inception of it to Aksapāda. See the Vaiśeṣika. That the Nyāya had had a great hold upon the students' mind can be seen from the fact that "Nyāya is still a favourite study in India, and we have students from Kashmere and Rajputana and Northern India attending the celebrated Nyāya Schools in Navadvīpa in Bengal, living in the houses of their teacher and pursuing their studies for years together, in the very same way, in which students among the Magadhas and Aṅgas and Kosalas and Videhas pursued their studies when Gautama, the logician lived and taught."¹ Even up to this day, the Benares Hindu University awards a special prize to a student, who shows proficiency in Nyāya.