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Al-Bīrūnī's Arabic Version of Patanjali's Yogasūtra:

1966; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 29; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0041977x00058870

1474-0699

Shlomo Pines, Tuvia Gelblum,

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The first text of al-Bīrūnī (A.D. 973-C. 1050) published in Europe which contains a reference to his translation of Patañjali's Yogasūtra is his Risāla fī fihrist kutub Muḥammad ibn Zakarīya' al-Rāzī, the relevant part of which was published by E. Sachau, Leipzig, 1876ndash;8. 1 In his list of his own works, which is included in this Risāla, al-Bīrūnī states that this list comprises the works he has written up to the end of 427/1037. 2 Several years later Sachau published al-Bīrūnī's India (London, 1887), in which al-Bīrūnī not only refers to his having translated this work of Patañjali, 3 but also quotes from it copiously. 4