Description
About the Book
This book introduces, edits and translates the Dattātreyayogaśāstra , a Sanskrit text on yoga composed in about 1200 CE in South India. It teaches four types of yoga practice but devotes the majority of its 193 verses to haṭhayoga , which it divides into two varieties, one which consists of the eight auxiliaries first taught by Patañjali and one which has nine physical methods. It is thus the first text to combine the aṣṭāṅga system of Patañjali with physical techniques, and its teachings were highly influential on later authors and commentators of yoga texts. The book is addressed primarily to scholars but will also be of interest to students and practitioners of yoga.
Keywords
Haṭha Yoga, Sanskrit, Yoga, Hinduism
About the Author
James Mallinson is Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford. From 2013 to 2023 he worked at SOAS University of London, where in 2018 he established the SOAS Center of Yoga Studies. From 2015 to 2020 he was Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded Hatha Yoga Project and from 2021 to 2024 Principal Investigator of the AHRC/DFG-funded Light on Hatha project, which produced a critical edition of the Haṭhapradīpikā .
