ABSTRACT
PARSIS: Contemporary Zoroastrians, who live in Bombay, India. PATANJALI (240-180 B.C.): The traditional founder of classic Yoga, Patanjali (pronounced pah tahn jolly) is currently the subject of a scholarly debate as to whether he is two or one, whether he is identical with Patanjali the grammarian (who composed the Great Commentary (Mahābhāsya) to Kātyāyana’s Critical Gloss (Vārttika) on Pānini’s Sanskrit Grammar) or not. Liebich, Garbe, and Dasgupta say he is, while J.H.Woods, Jacobi, and Keith say he is not. There is less controversy among the scholars as to whether, as tradition claims, he is the incarnation of the serpent-king Sesa, who surrounds and supports the universe as the Cosmic Ocean.
