Sources (Works Cited)

CONTENTS:

Section 1: Sanskrit Dictionaries; Translations of Patanjali

Section 2: Sources Quoted and Paraphrased
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Section 1: Sanskrit Dictionaries; Translations of Patanjali

Bouandchaud, Bernard. The Essence of Yoga: Reflections on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Translated by Rosemary Desneux. Foreword by T.K.V. Desikachar. Sri Satguru Publications, 2001. Originally published in French, Ed. Agamat, 1995.

Bryant, Edwin F. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali with Insights from the Traditional Commentators: A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary. North Point Press, 2009.

Carrera, Rev. Jaganath. Inside Patanjali’s Words: Explore the Heart of Yoga. Integral Yoga, 2020.

Feuerstein, Georg. The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali: A New Translation and Commentary. Inner Traditions International, 1989.

Geer, David. The Essence of the Yoga Sutras: An Introduction to Patanjali’s Aphorisms with the Commentary of Vyasa. Studio Remi, 2020.

Hariharānanda, Swami Āraṇya. Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali with Bhasvati. Translated by P.N. Mukerji, U Calcutta, 2012. 

Hartranft, Chip. The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali: A New Translation with Commentary. Shambala, 2003.

Iyengar, B.K.S. Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. 1966. Thorsons/ HarperCollins, 2002.

Judge, William Q. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. 1885. Digireads.com, 2017.

Miller, Barbara Stoler. Yoga: Discipline of Freedom: The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali. Bantam, 1998.

Monier-Williams, Monier. A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Corrected Edition. 1899. Motilal Banasidass, 2022. Also available at Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries, 2002, https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/.  

Prabhavananda, Swami, and Christopher Isherwood. How To Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali. New American Library, 1996. Also available as The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali. Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1953, https://estudantedavedanta.net/ Yoga-Aphorisms-of-Patanjali.pdf.

“Sanskrit: Base Form Dictionary [of the Rig Veda].” Ancient Sanskrit Online. University of Texas at Austin Linguistics Research Center, 2022, https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol_base_form_dictionary/vedol/7.

“Sanskrit: Master Glossary [of the Rig Veda].” Ancient Sanskrit Online. University of Texas at Austin Linguistics Research Center, 2022, https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/
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Satchidananda, Swami. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: Translation and Commentary. Integral Yoga, 2012. Also available at The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/yogasutrasofpata0000satc/mode/2up, 2021-09-30 ed.

Stiles, Mukunda. Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Foreword by Mark Whitwell. Weiser Classics, 2021.

Vivekananda, Swami. “Patanjali’s Yoga Aphorisms.” Raja Yoga, Jazzybee Verlag, 2019, pp. 47-104.

Vyasa. “The Yoga Sutras with the Commentary of Vyasa.” The Essence of the Yoga Sutras: An Introduction to Patanjali Aphorisms with the Commentary of Vyasa, translated by David Geer, Studio Remi, 2020, pp. 91-190.

Watkins, Calvert, editor. The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots. 3rd ed., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

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