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The Tattvartha Sutra is regarded as one of the earliest, most authoritative book on Jainism, and the only text authoritative in both the Digambara and Śvētāmbara sects, [13] and its importance in Jainism is comparable with that of the Brahma Sutras and Yoga Sutras of Patanjali in Hinduism.
The first two sutras are as follows: 1.1.1 vṛddhir ādaiC [i] 1.1.2 adeṄ guṇaḥ [ii] In these sutras, the letters which here are put into the upper case actually are special meta-linguistic symbols; they are called IT [iii] markers or, by later writers such as Katyayana and Patanjali, anubandhas (see below).
Statue of Patañjali, its traditional snake form indicating kundalini or an incarnation of Shesha. The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali (IAST: Patañjali yoga-sūtras) is a compilation "from a variety of sources" [1] of Sanskrit sutras on the practice of yoga – 195 sutras (according to Vyāsa and Krishnamacharya) and 196 sutras (according to others, including BKS Iyengar).
The authorship of the two is first attributed to the same person in Bhojadeva's Rajamartanda, a relatively late (10th century) commentary on the Yoga Sutras, [54] as well as several subsequent texts. As for the texts themselves, the Yoga Sutra iii.44 cites a sutra as that from Patanjali by name, but this line itself is not from the Mahābhāṣya.
Mahabhashya (Sanskrit: महाभाष्य, IAST: Mahābhāṣya, IPA: [mɐɦaːbʱaːʂjɐ], "Great Commentary"), attributed to Patañjali, is a commentary on selected rules of Sanskrit grammar from Pāṇini's treatise, the Aṣṭādhyāyī, as well as Kātyāyana's Vārttika-sūtra, an elaboration of Pāṇini's grammar.
Raja Yoga is a book by Swami Vivekananda about "Raja Yoga", his interpretation of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras adapted for a Western audience. [1] The book was published in July 1896. [ 2 ] It became an instant success and was highly influential in the Western understanding of yoga .
[1] [5] A systematic collection of ideas of Yoga is found in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, [6] [7] a key text of Yoga [web 1] which has influenced all other schools of Indian philosophy. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The metaphysics of Yoga is Samkhya's dualism , [ web 1 ] in which the universe is conceptualized as composed of two realities: Puruṣa (witness ...
Samkhya Sutra; Mimamsa Sutra, 300 – 200 BCE [9] Arthashastra, 400 BCE – 200 CE [10] Nyāya Sūtras, 2nd century BCE [11] Vaiśeṣika Sūtra, 2nd century BCE [12] Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, 100 BCE – 500 BCE [13] Brahma Sutra, 500 BCE [14] [15] Puranas, 250 – 1000 CE [16] Shiva Sutras, 120 BCE [citation needed]