![]() Those predecessors thus acquired an exaggerated longevity… Given that the knowledge in Patañjali’s most widely recognized work, the Yoga Sutras, is presented through a series of terse aphorisms, a date for him of somewhere between the fourth and second centuries BCE becomes highly likely… Give or take a century, therefore, somewhere around 250 BCE seems the best bet. ![]() The dates proposed for Patañjali’s birth and life vary by a millennium… A part of the reason for this wide divergence in possible dates is the tradition, common at the time… In order to make their contributions more acceptable, and to give them some cachet and an air of authority, later thinkers were frequently content to concede authorship of their contributions to one or another of their more illustrious predecessors. Yogiraj Alan Finger writes that Patanjali seems to have been “a practicing yogi writing for his contemporary community of yoga practitioners and students” and not “for intellectual dabblers or the general public.”. ![]() Even his most basic biographical details are disputed.” Others claim that Patanjali was a revered yogi and scholar of many subjects. ![]()
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