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The first single, reliable collection of primary material from the source traditions of yoga
Despite the immense popularity of yoga today, there is surprisingly little knowledge of its roots among practitioners. This book brings together, for the first time, the core teachings of yoga in the words of their authors, rather than in the secondary versions of modern interpreters. Including key passages from the Upanishads, the Buddhist and Jaina traditions, the yoga sections of the Indian Tantras, and many texts that are being critically translated for the first time, Roots of Yoga provides a comprehensive and immediate insight into the essential texts of the Indian traditions of yoga. This book is a first stop for anyone wishing to learn more than they are told at their yoga class, and an indispensable resource for serious yoga practitioners and teachers.

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Translated and Edited with an Introduction by James Mallinson and Mark - photo 1
Translated and Edited
with an Introduction by
James Mallinson and Mark Singleton

ROOTS OF YOGA
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Contents
PENGUIN Roots of Yoga - image 3 CLASSICS
ROOTS OF YOGA

JAMES MALLINSON is Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit and Classical Indian Civilization at SOAS, University of London. His research focuses on the yoga tradition, in particular the texts, techniques and practitioners of traditional . He has edited and translated several texts on hahayoga from its formative period, the eleventh to fifteenth centuries CE, and published encyclopedia entries and journal articles on yogas history. His primary research methods in addition to philology are ethnography and art history. He has spent several years living with traditional Hindu ascetics and yogis in India and was honoured with the title of mahant by the Ramanandi Sampradaya at the 2013 Kumbh Mela festival. He is currently leading a five-year, six-person research project at SOAS on the history of hahayoga, funded by the European Research Council, whose outputs will include ten critical editions of key texts on hahayoga.

MARK SINGLETON is Senior Research Fellow in the department of Languages and Cultures of South Asia, SOAS, University of London, where he works with James Mallinson on the Indian and transnational history of hahayoga. He taught for six years at St Johns College (Santa Fe, New Mexico), and was a Senior Long-Term Research Scholar at the American Institute of Indian Studies, based in Jodhpur (Rajasthan, India). He was a consultant and catalogue author for the 2013 exhibition Yoga: The Art of Transformation at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, and has served as co-chair of the Yoga in Theory and Practice Group at the American Academy of Religions. He is a manager of the Modern Yoga Research website. His research focuses on the tensions between tradition and modernity in yoga, and the transformations that yoga has undergone in recent centuries in response to globalization. He has published book chapters, journal articles and encyclopedia entries on yoga, several edited volumes of scholarship, and a monograph entitled Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice. His current work involves the critical editing and translation of three Sanskrit texts of hahayoga and new research on the history of physical practices that were incorporated into or associated with yoga in pre-colonial India.

Note on the Reference System and Diacritics

The translated passages are numbered sequentially from the beginning to the end of the book, and are referred to in the introductions by these numbers, which are given in bold type. In cases where the chapter arrangement is entirely chronological, the first number indicates the chapter and the second the translation itself. So, for example, 3.4 denotes Chapter 3, translation 4. In cases where the chapters are arranged thematically, the first number indicates the chapter, the second the thematic section, and the third the translation. So, for example, 6.2.1 denotes Chapter 6, section 2, translation 1.

Historically, Sanskrit has been written using many different scripts. Since the advent of printing, the most common of these, especially in northern India, has been Devangar (Roots of Yoga - image 4). It is important to understand, however, that these scripts are not Sanskrit itself but systems for representing its sounds. The Roman alphabet (used for writing English and other European languages) cannot represent the full range of sounds in Sanskrit, and so we must add diacritical marks to certain letters. In this book we follow the conventions of the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST), which allows for the lossless representation of the Sanskrit syllabary in Roman script.

15001000 BCEVedas (g, Sma, Yajur and Atharva) (V)
1000700 BCEBrhmaas (V)
700500 BCEBhadrayaka and Chndogya Upaniads (V)
3rd century BCEKaha Upaniad (V)
1st century BCECavedalla Sutta (BC), Saccavibhaga Sutta (BC), Satipahna Sutta (BC), Muaka Upaniad (V)
1st century CEMahbhrata ntiparvan (E) completed
2nd century CERmyaa (E) completed, Pupatastra (T)
3rd century CEMahbhrata (E) completed, Manusmti (HL)
4th century CEVaieikastra (HP), Sthngastra (J), Patajalis Yogastra, Pacrthabhya (T)
5th century CEVisuddhimagga (B)
6th century CEvetvatara Upaniad (V), Padrthadharmasagraha (HP), Vaikhnasadharmastra (HL)
6th10th century CEEarly Tantras: Nivsatattvasahit (T), Vikha (T), Vairocanbhisabodhistra (BT), Majuriyamlakalpa (BT), Brahmaymala (T), Hevajra (BT), Jayadrathaymala (T), Mgendra (T), Kiraa (T), Parkhya (T), Matagapramevara (T), Sarvajnottara (T), Siddhayogevarmata (T), Mlinvijayottara (T), Svacchanda (T), Netra (T), Kaulajnaniraya (T), Kubjikmata (T), Vimnrcankalpa (VT), Pdmasahit (VT)
7th10th century CEEarly Puras: Skanda, Vyu, Krma (inc. varagt), Liga, Bhgavata, Mrkaeya
8th century CETantravrttika (HP), Brahmastrabhya (HP), Ptajalayogastravivaraa (HP)
9th century CESpandakrik (T)
10th century CEVijnabhairava (T), Paramokanirsakrikvtti (T)
11th century CEHemacandras Yogastra (J), Chos drug gi man ngag zhes bya ba (BT), Spandasadoha (T), Amtasiddhi (H), Kathsaritsgara (E), Vimalaprabh (T)
12th century CEVajravrh Sdhana (BT), Viusahit (VT), Amanaska (H), radtilaka (T)
13th century CESagtaratnkara (T), Vasihasahit (H), Candrvalokana (H), Matsyendrasahit (T), Vivekamrtaa (H), Gorakaataka (H), Datttreyayogastra (H), Jnevar (H)
14th century CETirumantiram (T), Aparoknubhti (HP), Yogatrval (H), akaradigvijaya (VA), Amaraughaprabodha (H), Yogabja (H), Khecarvidy (H), ivasahit (H), Gorakavijaya (E), rgadharapaddhati (HC), Jvanmuktiviveka (VA), Lallvkyni (T), Rela of Ibn Roots of Yoga - image 5 (T)
15th century CEivayogapradpik (H), Rtsa rlung gsang bai lde mig (BT), Hahapradpik (H), aw al-ayt (H), Mahklasahit (T)
16th century CE
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