ORCID ID

0000-0001-7050-6259

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

Publication Title

Journal of Indian Philosophy

Abstract

Though scholarship on diverse methods of yoga in the Indian traditions abounds, there has not been sufficient research that examines the traditions of yoga in the puranas. The present paper explores yoga articulated in the Visnu Purana (fourth century CE) and argues that what seems like a unified teaching is a composite of an eight-limbed yoga embedded within an instruction on proto-Sämkhya. An evaluation of the key elements of yoga as developed in this text as a whole, clarifies our understanding of the emergence of yoga and its relationship to epic formulations on the one hand and to the Classical System of the Yogasiitras of Patafijali on the other.

Original Citation

Adluri, S. (2017). Yoga in the Visnu Purana. Journal of Indian Philosophy, 45(2), 381-402.

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