Dvivedi, Manilal Nabhubhai [Komm.]: The Yoga-sūtra of Patanjali: (translation, with introduction, appendix, and notes based upon several authentic commentaries) (Bombay, 1890)

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Prakrtilaya, i. «., one dissolved in Prakrti, one who has not
risen beyond it.*

In every act of pondering there is the knower, the known,
and the instrnments. The fourth kind of Samadhi has reference
only to the knower (Grkitf); the third to the instrnments
(Grakana, viz., the Indriyas) ; and the first and second to the
known, i. e., objects (Gr&kya). The first relates to the Sthula-
bhutas and Indriyas; the second to the Tanmatras and Antah-
karana ; the third to Ahcmkara ; and the fourth to PurvJa.
To put it otherwise, meditation on some gross object as an
idol or the form of some god, &c, is the first; meditation on
the snbtile canse of the gross form is the second: meditation
on the instruments of knowledge and the cause that moves
them is the third; and meditation of the cause of all causes,
the real substratum of all, is the last. The first consists of all
four; and the way to pass from the first to the second and
onward is by excluding or ignoring such parts as are perfectly
fixed in the mind, and are not likely to recur and interrupt
further meditation.f

XVIII. The other is that which consists only of
Samskdras, being brought on by the practice of the
cause of complete suspension.

In interpreting this Sutra commentators are not at one. We
follow the BJAkya and V&c/iaspati, rejecting Bhoja. We have
the Maniprabhd with us. The other means the other kind of

* Vide the Maniprabka. The meaning assigned to this word
by Bhoja conflicts with his own explanation of the same
under XVIII.

t For further elucidation vide Madhnsudana in his com-
mentary on the Bhagvad-G-ita, chap. YI, verse 15.