Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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• bibid: 9957945063503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/800665967

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Summary

Manuscript for private use a kind of manual for various bodily yoga practices, breathing exercises (such as Sūryabhedena), conceptual passage ways (nādi) through the body, and the like; text examines practices from two different styles of yoga practice, Rājayoga and Haṭhayoga, possibly comparing or synthesizing the two forms. Promotes the Hindu deity Śiva above other gods.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 4v).
   
• Written in 8 lines per leaf.
   
• 4 leaves foliated 1-4, lower right verso.
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

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Colophon

Subjects topical

• Yoga, Rāja
• Hatha yoga
• Respiration--Religious aspects
• Śaivism
• Siva (Hindu deity)

Genres

• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--19th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--19th century

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