Rājayogavināhaṭha, circa 1700-1850.
राजयोगविनाहठ

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Yoga, Rāja.

Hatha yoga.

Respiration--Religious aspects.

Respiration.

Śaivism.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Śiva.

Śiva (Hindu deity).

Genre:

manuals (instructional materials)

treatises

Manuscripts, Sanskrit.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 item (4 leaves) : paper ; 14 x 26 cm

Contained In:

Collection of Indic Manuscripts. Item 1922

Place of Publication:

circa 1700-1850.

१७००-१८५०.

Language Note:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

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.

Colophon: iti rājayogaṃ vināhaṭhaḥ sa[ṃ]pūrṇaṃ // śrīviśveśvarārpaṇam astu // (f. 4v).

Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.

Non-Latin script record.

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 3604 (UP 1922).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 1922

OCLC:

800665968