...Joseph S. Alter On one level, and with reference to a specific frame of reference, embodied forms of practice that have come to be associated with Yoga and Taoist philosophy appear to be very similar if not identical in terms of form, structure, and purpose. However, there is no clear-cut history...

.... The topic of this section, as Jinavijaya had already noted, is not Maḥmūd of Ghazna, but “a certain king Yōga” ( kuvi jōga-narēsaru , 5 a ). 38 The following verses make clear that Yōga was laying waste to Sanchore and wanted to carry off the image of Mahāvīra, which is described as golden ( cāmīyara , 5...

... with Jogīs” ; Gold, “Instability of the King” ; Horstmann, “Nāthyoga in the Dādūpanth” ; Nayar and Singh Sandhu, Socially Involved Renunciate ; Parikh, “Yoga under the Mughals” ; Pinch, “Nath Yogis, Akbar, and the ‘Balnath Tila’” ; Pinch, Warrior Ascetics and Indian Empires . 24. Burchett...

... in a collection of four Indo-­Persian texts.6 This tice of yoga. work, which to date has not been the subject of 2. On the explanation of the fact that all the lights of the world are darkness in relation to scholarly analysis, is the basis...

... Yoga in Modern India: India: Modern in Yoga...

... at Nalanda University, came under fire from the new university administration for her course on the History and Politics of Yoga. The cancellation of the course and her employment contract was preceded by a tweet from Ram Madhav, the national general secretary of the BJP, who questioned the legitimacy...

... space within a continuous narrative struc- only are they meant to turn students into formida- ture. The textbook for Class IV also includes an ble soldiers of the Hindu nation, they also impart account of the police firing on the mob that had spiritual qualities. Yoga, especially, is considered...

... Vision of a Free South Africa . New Delhi : Sanchar , 1995 . Stein William Bysshe . “The Yoga of Reading in Walden.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 13 , no. 3 ( 1971 ): 481 – 95 . Swan Maureen . Gandhi: The South African Experience . Johannesburg : Ravan Press...

... of the conference, a fact noted as exceptional in the extensive media coverage accorded to an event that drew comment as much for its spectacular staging as for its agenda. Local and national newspapers splashed images of the prime minister and home minister taking a walk in the Rann, doing yoga with conference...

... in the space in which informa- older Orientalist readings tended to look at Indian tion technology, social media, and “big data” come “caste” or Indian “yoga” or Indian “rope tricks” together, a space that can safely be seen as the next contrasted with their Western...

... internal, spiritual conquest of the self (through of military consolidation via the figure of one of yoga) is traded for oppression of one’s own people; Rāma’s...

... I am grateful to Sheldon Pollock, Hamsa Stainton, and partici- Institute 6 (1925): 83 – 107; Fathullah Mujtaba’i, “Muntakhab-­i pants in the 2008 Persian Literature in Multilingual India Con- Jug-­Basasht, or Selections from the Yoga...

... , Sanskrit literature ( kavya ), yoga, vedanta , lexicography, music, drama, aesthetic tropes, mythology ( purana ), metrical works, the science of omens, astrology, mathematics, physiognomy, political science, erotics, veterinary sciences, and guardianship. In terms of Sanskrit writing ( vanmaya...

.... New readers of Gandhi’s print products; and the com- Delhi: Sanchar, 1995. parable if considerably more modest print figure Stein, William Bysshe. “The Yoga of Reading in Walden...

...-Muslim encounters, a topic that has mostly been approached either ethnographically, 4 through the study of Sufism and Yoga, 5 or in the context of premodern encounters between Sanskrit and Persianate literary cultures. 6 This of course is not to posit any stark binary between modernist...

...–44). In that year (ca. 1723), a group of astrologers ( ganaks ) who visited the court of Siva Simha predicted royal bad luck ( chatrabhaṅga yoga ) for the Tungkhungia king. The astrologers advised that in order to circumvent its way around the bad luck the court must appoint a new king who would...

.... Zur-mkhar-ba’s reason for rejecting these and textual authority (in this case, that of the medical views is telling: If the tantric channels were only a mat- text the Four Tantras) comes up in another section of ter of the imagination, the fruits of tantric yoga would Zur-mkhar-ba’s commentary: why...

...   East Bengal, was based on a simple creed: love BC, does not mention ijtihad in his discussion. is also a path (marga) to union (yoga) with God, He criticizes the notion that heterodoxy is lim-   as opposed to karma (action) or jnana (knowl- ited to affluent...

... Heath this disjuncture, for Ahmad, that gives to con- ploying “indigenous culture”—ranging from temporary Hindu communalism “a very pecu- “Hindu sciences” such as yoga and ayurveda...

... knowledge consists in knowing the self. This is attained lives” (v. 272). Accordingly, therefore, the aim of yoga through practice and direct experiment, which can only saatanaa is kaayasitti or the perfection of the body. Every be undertaken with the help of a guru. 87 However, the siddhar...