Haṭha Ratnāvalī
The Haṭha Ratnāvalī is a
Haṭha yoga text written in the 17th century by Srinivasa. It is one of the first texts to name 84 asanas
, earlier texts having claimed as many without naming them. It describes 36 asanas.
Text
The Haṭha Ratnāvalī is a
Haṭha yoga text written in the 17th century by Srinivasa.[1]
It states (1.17-18) that seals assist in Haṭha yoga.[2] It mentions 8 purifications (shatkarmas), criticising the Hatha Yoga Pradipika for only describing 6 of these.[3]
It is one of the earliest texts (the other being the unpublished Bhairavasana, Matsyendrasana, Kurmasana, Kraunchasana, Mandukasana, Yoganidrasana, and many names now not in wide usage; it provides descriptions of 36 of these asanas.[8]
Notes
- signs of the zodiac, while in numerology, 84=(3+4)×(3×4).[5]
References
- ^ Srinivasa 2003.
- ^ Mallinson & Singleton 2017, p. 29.
- ^ Mallinson & Singleton 2017, pp. 77–79.
- ^ Mallinson & Singleton 2017, p. 91.
- ISBN 978-0-8348-4057-7.
this number has symbolic significance. S. Dasgupta, in Obscure Religious Cults (1946), cites numerous instances of variations on eighty-four in Indian literature that stress its 'purely mystical nature'; ... Gudrun Buhnemann, in her comprehensive Eighty-Four Asanas in Yoga, notes that the number 'signifies completeness, and in some cases, sacredness. ... John Campbell Oman, in The Mystics, Ascetics, and Saints of India (1905) ... seven ... classical planets in Indian astrology ... and twelve, the number of signs of the zodiac. ... Matthew Kapstein gives .. a numerological point of view ... 3+4=7 ... 3x4=12 ...
- ^ Yoga Institute (Santacruz East Bombay India) (1988). Cyclopaedia Yoga. Yoga Institute. p. 32.
- ^ Mallinson & Singleton 2017, pp. 116–119.
- ^ Mallinson & Singleton 2017, pp. 91, 116–119.
Sources
- OCLC 928480104.
- Srinivasa (2003). Gharote, M. L.; Devnath, Parimal (eds.). Haṭharatnāvalī (a treatise on Haṭhayoga) of Śrīnivāsayogi. Lonavala Yoga Institute (India). OCLC 52846127.
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