Philology

This book contains a translation of the Pātañjalayogaśāstra, i.e. the Yogasūtra ascribed to Patañjali and its primary commentary, Yogabhāṣya, of dispu …

This book contains James Mallinson’s edition and translation of the Śivasaṃhitā, an important text of the Haṭhayoga corpus. Mallinson has based himsel …

This book is possibly the most easily available edition of the Pātañjalayogaśāstra, whose GRETIL etext has been typed in from it, and the commentaries …

This book is the editio princeps of presumably the oldest commentary on the Yogabhāṣya and thus the oldest subcommentary on the Yogasūtra, composed by …

This book is the published version of Philipp Maas PhD thesis, a critical edition of the Pātañjalayogaśāstra, i.e. the Yogasūtra of Patañjali together …

This book contains a critical edition and English translation of the Śivasaṃhitā by a team belonging to the Kaivalyadhama Institute, based on their 19 …

This essay examines the formative history of the cakras of tantric yoga through a genealogy of the “wheel of the navel” (nābhicakra) and “lotus of the heart” (hṛdayapuṇḍarīka, etc

In contemporary, globalised yoga, few practices are as widespread or as emblematic as sūryanamaskār (‘salutation to the sun’)

The Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati is a Sanskrit text on the practice of Haṭhayoga, probably composed in the eighteenth century in Maharashtra

This essay aims to present the current state of research on the Dharmaputrikā Saṃhitā, an ancient text on yoga which describes, with an exceptional depth of detail and a high level of bodily technicality, internal yogic practices

In this chapter, we formulate a corpus of premodern praxis manuals on yoga that were composed in the 18th and 19th century in rudimentary Sanskrit and vernacular languages, which were likely documenting collections of yoga postures (āsana) current among practitioners of the time

This chapter aims to broaden our understanding of the visual record of yogis carved upon the temple pillars and walls of several Vijayanagara-era temple sites in the Deccan—including major temple complexes at Hampi, Śrīśailam, Śṛṅgerī, Lepākṣī, and Śravaṇabeḷagola

The largely understudied Sāmrājyalakṣmīpīṭhikā is known to a small number of Sanskritists as a compendium on kingship, which they believe to be from South India

In the Nāṭyaśāstra, two main types of physical practices are described in some detail: the so-called “bodily acting” (āṅgikābhinaya) and dance (nṛtta)

The tradition of Turco-Persian wrestling, including its programme of physical education based at dedicated gyms known as zurkhāneh (literally “houses of strength”), contains elements that would appear to merge Turkish, Iranian, Central-Asian, and Indian influences within a mystical (Sufi) Islamic framework potentially affected to a certain degree by Buddhism

Mallkhāmb (malla-khāmba, “wrestler-pole”) is today popularly referred to as “Pole Yoga” and it is recognised as the so-called “Authentic Indian Sport

The so-called “Sun Salutation” (S

The “family resemblance” between the Chinese therapeutic exercises known as daoyin (lit

This article was inspired by a reading of Nāgeśa Bhaṭta’s commentary, Pātañjalayogasūtravṛtti (PYV), on Pātañjalayogaśāstra I