The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali

Autor: Christopher Chapple and Yogi Ananda Viraj (Eugene p. Kelly, Jr.) 

Editora: Sri Satguru Publications 
ISBN: 81-70302-44-7 
Ano: 1990 
Edição: 1ª
1384 páginas
Acabamento: Brochura com capa dura
Formato 15 x 23 cm (normal)
Nova Delhi - India

This new translation, drawing its inspiration from both careful scholarship and yogic practice, offers innovative features in that it:

• provide a full grammatical analysis of each term used by Patañjali, including an analysis of word compounds;
• emphasis the style and flow of the central autor, rather than defering to later commentaries;
• includes a concise introduction, surveying earlier scholarship on the text and highlighting what the translators perceive to be its central theme: the process of subtilization;
• uses consistent translation of Sanskrit terms such as artha (purpose) and visaya (condition), whereas prior translations have often given more than one translation for the same Sanskrit word;
• selectively retains techinical vocabulary in the original, thus challenging the reader t expand his or her linguistic horizons by assimilating Sanskrit terms such purusa, prakrti, guna and dharma.

 A Sanskrit word index and Bibliography of prior translations are included

Dr. Christopher Chaple is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California. He is ator of Karma and Creativity (SUNY Press, 1986) and editor of Samkhya-Yoga proceeding as well as Religious Experience and Scientific Paradigms both published  by the institute for Advanced Syudies of World Religions. Dr. Chapple has also edited and extended the grammatical analysis of Winthrop Sargeant's translation of th Bhagavad Gita (SUNY Pres, 1984)

Yogi Ananda Viraj (Eugene P. Kelly, Jr.) is Assistant Director of Yoga Anand Asham in Amityville, New York. He is author of several articles and is on the Editorial Board of Moksha Journal.