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The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali by David Gordon White

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Philosophy of Yoga

Publisher : Princeton University Press (May 25, 2014)
ISBN : 978-0691143774
Hardcover: 296 pages
About : Consisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is today extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide to yoga practice. As David Gordon White demonstrates in this groundbreaking study, both of these assumptions are incorrect. Virtually forgotten in India for hundreds of years and maligned when it was first discovered in the West, the Yoga Sutra has been elevated to its present iconic status―and translated into more than forty languages―only in the course of the past forty years...

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