1) Ancient Sanskrit grammarian 
Patañjali (पतञ्जलि, IPA) is a Sanskrit proper name. Several important Sanskrit works are ascribed to one or more authors of this name, and a great deal of scholarship has been devoted over the last century or so to the issue of disambiguation. Amongst the more important authors called Patañjali are: In some Sanskrit grammatical wor...
author or one of the authors of two great Hindu classics: the first, Yoga-stras, a categorization of Yogic thought arranged in four volumes with the ... [6 related articles]
author of the Yoga Sutras and preacher of the eight-fold (ashtanga) yoga
Indian author of the Yoga-s?tras, which propound the philosophy of yoga. According to Patanjali, yoga consists of eight steps:yama (self-restraint);niyama...
The author of Yoga Sutras, the foremost scripture on Raja Yoga, The Yoga of meditation and mind control.He lived around the time of Christ and brilliantly summarized and synthesized the yoga practices of his time.
author of the yoga sutras and founder of the corresponding darshan (school of thought).
The author of the Yogasutras (q.v.), not identical with the famous Hindu grammarian by the same name -- K.F.L.