Editing Patanjali (section)

===Yoga tradition===
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In the Yoga tradition, Patañjali is a revered name. This Patañjali's oeuvre comprises the sutras about Yoga (''Yogasūtra'') and the commentary integral to the sutras, called the ''Bhāṣya''.  Some consider the sutras and the Bhaṣya to have had different authors, the commentary being ascribed to "an editor" (Skt. "vyāsa").  According to Phillipp Maas, the same person named Patanjali composed the sutras and the ''Bhāṣya'' commentary.<ref>{{cite book|last=Maas|first=Philipp. A.|title=Samādhipāda: das erste Kapitel des Pātañjalayogaśāstra zum ersten Mal kritisch ediert| year= 2006|publisher= Shaker|location= Aachen|isbn=978-3832249878}}</ref>

Radhakrishnan and Moore attribute the text to the grammarian Patañjali, dating it as 2nd century [[BCE]], during the [[Maurya Empire]] (322–185 BCE).{{Sfn|Radhakrishnan|Moore|1957|p=453}} Maas estimates Patañjali's Yogasutra's date to be about 400 CE, based on tracing the commentaries on it published in the first millennium CE.<ref name=maas-sama/> Edwin Bryant, on the other hand, surveys the major commentators in his translation of the ''Yoga Sūtras''.{{sfn|Bryant|2009|p={{page needed|date=December 2021}}}} He states that "most scholars date the text shortly after the turn of the Common Era (circa first to second century), but that it has been placed as early as several centuries before that."{{sfn|Bryant|2009|p=xxxiv}} Bryant concludes that "A number of scholars have dated the ''Yoga Sūtras'' as late as the fourth or fifth century C.E., but these arguments have all been challenged", and late chronology for this Patanjali and his text are problematic.{{sfn|Bryant|2009|p=510, notes 43–44}}