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LAGHU YOGA VASISTHA
about 6,000 Granthas 1, whereas the latter contains
36,000. The commentary of the former has the same
number of Granthas as the original whereas that of
the latter amounts to 74,000 Granthas which with
its original is a lakh on the whole. In the abridged
text, almost all the words of the bigger one are
reproduced verbatim from the bigger one, the
work of the author being generally to clip the
bigger of its expansive descriptions and so on; so
that in the work before us, we have got the
quintessence extracted. This work seems to have
been undertaken by one Abhinanda, a great pandit
of Kashmir. The authorship or rather writership is
attributed to Rishi Valmiki, the author of the
Ramayana who is said to have related the whole of
Yoga Vasistha to Rishi Bharadwaja as having
occurred between Sri Rama and Rishi Vasistha. But
of this, later on. The larger work seems to have
been partially translated by a gentleman hailing
from Bengal. But this one, though small, it is
named, is yet big enough.
1 A Grantha equals 32 syllables
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