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Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi

The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice

Jason BIRCH

Collection : Collection Indologie

Collection's number: 161

Edition: EFEO, Institut français de Pondichéry (IFP)

Publication date: 2024

Status : Available

22,00 €

ISBN-13 : 9782855392950

ISSN : 0073-8352

Width : 17 cm

Height : 24 cm

Weight : 0.47 kg

Number of pages : 264

Distributor : EFEO Diffusion, EFEO Pondichéry Contact : shanti@efeo-pondicherry.org

Geography : India

Language : English, Sanskrit

Place : Pondichéry

Support : Papier

Description :

xvi + 247 p., English, Sanskrit, paperback

ISBN EFEO : 9782855392950

ISBN IFP : 9788184702545

Collection Indologie n˚ 161

Haṭhayoga series n˚ 4

Abstract

Writing in Varanasi in the sixteenth century, when the Mughal empire was at the height of its power, the monk Śivānandasarasvatī composed an extensive Sanskrit compendium on yoga entitled “The Wish-fulfilling Gem of Yoga” (Yogacintāmaṇi). Śivānanda was an initiate of a sannyāsin lineage descending from the great philosopher Śaṅkarācārya (fl. ca. 800). Śivānanda was among the first to combine Pātañjalayoga with Haṭha and Rājayoga. In the seventeenth century, an anonymous redactor used Śivānanda’s work to create a unique compilation of yoga postures (āsana), many of which are not found in other yoga texts. Arguably the largest surviving pre-modern compilation of its kind, it includes six postures that the redactor attributed to Mohan of Mewar, who was a disciple of Dādū and a practitioner of Haṭhayoga and breath prognostication (svarodaya). These postures were part of a collection that was appropriated and repurposed by Sufis, translated into Persian and illustrated for a royal treatise commissioned by Prince Salīm, the future Mughal emperor Jahāngīr (r. 1605–1627 ce). This book presents this unique compilation,transmitted to us in a manuscript written in the redactor’s own handwriting.

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The Yogacintāmaṇi

Historical Milieu

Synopsis

Author and Provenance

Intended Audience

Date of Composition

The Source of Śivānanda’s Inspiration

Unique Feature of Śivānanda’s Yogacintāmaṇi

Influence on Subsequent Authors

The Ujjain Yogacintāmaṇi

The Āsanas of the Original Yogacintāmaṇi

The Āsanas of the Ujjain Yogacintāmaṇi

Witnesses for this Edition

Collated Manuscripts

Uncollated Manuscripts

Complete Manuscripts

Incomplete Manuscripts

Manuscripts of Truncated Versions

Transcripts

Published Edition

Testimonia

Editorial Policies

Format of the Text

Layers of the Apparatus

Reporting Conventions

Translation

Critical Edition of the Āsana Section in the Ujjain Yogacintāmaṇi

Annoted Translation of the Āsana Section in the Ujjain Yogacintāmaṇi

Appendix 1: The Opening Section of the Yogacintāmaṇi

Appendix2: The Index of Manuscript A

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Index

Notes

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