THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATANJALI

by PATANJALI, Charles Johnston

Overview

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is a foundational text of Yoga. It forms part of the corpus of Sutra literature dating to India's Mauryan period. In Indian philosophy, Yoga (also Raja Yoga to distinguish it from later schools) is the name of one of the six orthodox philosophical schools. Though brief, the Yoga Sutras are an enormously influential and powerful!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011912504
Publisher:	Bold Press
Publication date:	10/19/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	64 KB

About the Author

Patañjali is the compiler of the Yoga Sutras, an important collection of aphorisms on Yoga practice. From the tenth century CE onwards, the legend grew that the same Patañjali was also the author of the Mahābhāṣya, a commentary on Kātyāyana's vārttikas on Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī as well as on an unspecified work of medicine (āyurveda). Patanjali Hailed From Gonda District of Uttar Pradesh.