Invocations to Sage Patañjali

योगेन चित्तस्य पदेन वाचां मलं शरीरस्य च वैद्यकेन ।
योऽपाकरोत्तं प्रवरं मुनीनां पतञ्जलिं प्राञ्जलिरानतोऽस्मि ।।

yogena cittasya padena vācāṁ malaṁ śarīrasya ca vaidyakena
yo’pākarot taṁ pravaraṁ munīnāṁ patañjaliṁ prāñjalirānato’smi

I bow with folded hands to Patañjali, the best of sages, he who removed
the impurity of the mind-stuff through Yoga, that of language through word,
that of the body through medicine.

आबाहुपुरुषाकारं शङ्खचक्रासिधारिणम् ।
सहस्रशीर्षं श्वेतं प्रणमामि पतञ्जलिम् ।।

ābāhu-puruṣākāraṁ śaṅkha-cakrāsi- dhāriṇaṁ
sahasra-śīrṣaṁ śvetaṁ praṇamāmi patañjalim

I salute Patañjali who has a human form as far as his arms, bearer of a
conch shell, a cakra (wheeled weapon) and a sword, who is white,
he who has a thousand heads.