The catalog of EFEO Publications includes works on a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences (archaeology, history, anthropology, literature, philology, etc.), centered on Asia, from India to Japan.
These publications address both specialists, and a wider public interested in Asian civilizations and societies.
The Yoga of the Matsyendrasaṃhitā
A critical edition and annotated translation of chapters 1–13 and 55
Collection : Collection Indologie
Collection's number: 146
Edition: EFEO, Institut français de Pondichéry (IFP)
Publication date: 2021
Status : Available
32,00 €
ISBN-13 : 9782855392417
Width : 17.5 cm
Height : 24.5 cm
Weight : 1.05 kg
Number of pages : 608
Distributor : EFEO Diffusion, EFEO Pondichéry Contact : shanti@efeo-pondicherry.org
Geography : India
Language : English, Sanskrit
Place : Pondichéry
Support : Papier
Description :
17.5 x 24.5, 608 p., Sanskrit, English, Paperback
ISBN (EFEO) : 978 2 85539 241 7
ISBN (IFP) : 978 81 8470 239 2
Abstract
This volume presents the first critical edition, along with an English translation, of the core chapters of a Sanskrit work of perhaps the thirteenth century surviving in five nineteenth-century witnesses: the Matsyendrasaṃhitā. The work is useful as a primary source for the history of yoga and the Śaiva religions: it reveals important links between the tantric cults of Kubjikā and Tripurā and early haṭhayoga. In addition, its frame-story (in chapters 1 and 55) relates a unique version of the yogin Matsyendra’s legend in which his disciple Gorakṣa is a Chola king. The edition is bracketed by a detailed introduction and by detailed notes on the constitution of the text, as well as an annotated translation.
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