In the preparation of his translation, Dr. Woods has had the benefit of Deussen???s criticism; and he has revised his work under the oversight of Gang??dhara Sh??strin and of his pupils in Benares; and he has constantly consulted V??chaspatimi??ra???s sub-comment on the Yoga-bh??shya, and, as occasion required, the Yoga-v??rttika of Vij????na-bhikshu and other works of more modern scholiasts.