What is Patanjali?
[[File:Patanjali.jpg|right|upright=0.8|thumb|Patanjali as an incarnation of Adi Sesha]] '''Patañjali''' ([[floruit|fl.]] 150 BC<ref> Jonardon Ganeri, ''Artha: Meaning'', Oxford University Press 2006, 1.2, p. 12</ref> or 2nd century BC<ref>S. Radhakrishnan, and C.A. Moore, (1957). ''A Source Book in Indian Philosophy''. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University, ch. XIII, Yoga, p. 453</ref><ref name=gavin>Gavin A. Flood, 1996</ref>) lived in the [[2nd century]]. He was an [[India]]n. He wrote the first [[grammar]] of [[Sanskrit]] [[language]]. He also wrote books about [[yoga]]. He is also the author of the Mahabhyasa, a commentary on Katyayana's varttikas on Panini's Astadhyayi as well as an unspecified work of medicine (Ayurveda). ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} [[Category:Yoga]] [[Category:Hinduism]] [[Category:Indian writers]] [[Category:2nd-century BC people]]