Traditional Commentators of the Yoga Sūtras

• Vyāsa´s Bhāṣya (commentary) – First extant commentary dated around the fourth or fifth century.
  
• Śaṅkara Vivaraṇa – Influential commentator of the Vedānta school, dated around the eight to ninth century.
  
• Vācaspati Miśra´s Tattva-vaiśāradī –Next most
  authoritative commentary after Vyāsa's, dated in the ninth century.
  
• Al-Bīrunī's Arabic translation of the Yoga Sūtras – Manuscript recently discovered in 1922 but dating back to the tenth or eleventh century.
  
• The Rāja-mārtaṇḍa by Bhoja Rāja – Political figure of the eleventh century, ruler of an independent clan in the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh, central India.
  
• Vijñānabhikṣu's Yoga-vārttika – Prominent scholar and devotee of Vishnu from the fifteenth century, attempted to harmonize the schools Vedānta and Sāṅkhya concepts.