24 Mr. H. T. Colebrooke on tlie Philosophy of tlie Hindus. 



A third commentary, under the title of Sdnc'hya-tafwa-caumudi, or more 

 simply Tatwa-caumudi (for so it is cited by later commentators) is by 

 Vachespati misra, a native of Tirhut, author of similar works on various 

 other philosophical systems. It appears from the multiplicity of its copies, 

 which are unusually frequent, to be the most approved gloss on the text. 



One more commentary, bearing the analogous but simpler title of Sane' hya- 

 cavniudi, is by RAma-crishna BhattachArya, a learned, and not ancient 

 writer of Bengal, who has for the most part followed preceding commen- 

 tators, borrowing frequently from NarAyana Tirt'ha, though taking the 

 title of his commentary from VAchespati's. 



The scholiasts of the Cciricd have, in more than one place, noticed the 

 text of the sutras ; thus formally admitting the authority of the aphorisms. 

 The excellence of the memorial verses (CdricoL), with the gloss of Gauda- 

 pAda, and that of VAchespati misra, has been the occasion of both 

 collections of apliorisms (Talwa samdsa and Sane' liya-pravachana) falling 

 into comparative neglect. They are superseded for a text book of the 

 sect by Iswara crishna's clearer and more compendious work. Both siitras 

 and cdricd may be considered to be genuine and authoritative expositions of 

 the doctrine ; and the more especially, as they do not, upon any material 

 point, appear to disagree. 



The several works before-mentioned, are the principal works in which 

 tlie Sdnc'hya philosophy may be now studied. Others, which are cited by 

 scholiasts, may possibly be yet forthcoming. But they are at least scarce, 

 and no sufficient account of them can be given upon the strength of a few 

 scattered quotations. Among them, however, may be named the Rc'ija- 

 rdrlicn to which reference is made, as to a work held in much estimation, 

 and which appears to comprise annotations on the sutras ; and the Sangraha, 

 which is cited for parallel passages explanatory of the text, being an abridged 

 exposition of the same doctrines, in the form of a select compilation. 



Concerning the presumable antiquity of either Capila's aphorisms, or 

 Iswara-crishna's memorial couplets, I shall here only remark, that notices 

 of them, with quotations from both, do occur in philosophical treatises of 

 other schools ; whereby their authenticity is so far established. 



Besides the Sdnc'hya of Capila and his followers, another system, bearing 

 the same denomination, but more usually termed the Yoga-sdstra, or Yoga- 

 si'itra, as before remarked, is ascribed to a mythological being, Patanjali, 

 the supposed author of the great grammatical commentary emphatically 



