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Pātañjalayogaśāstra
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Pātañjalayogaśāstra (Patañjali’s Authoritative Exposition of Yoga) is the oldest preserved Sanskrit treatise coming from a Brahmanical milieu dealing with Yoga as a system of knowledge on spiritual liberation through meditation-derived proper knowledge (
samyagjñāna). The work was probably partly composed and partly compiled by an author-redactor named Patañjali, about whom nothing specific is known, except that he must have lived at some time around the year 400 CE, that is during the Gupta era, possibly in the western regi…
Date:
2020-05-18
