On the Meaning of Rasāyana in Classical Yoga and Āyurveda

The present chapter deals with rasāyana in the discipline of Yoga. More specifically, it focuses on the meaning of the word rasāyana in the Pātañjalayogaśāstra (PYŚ, late fourth or early fifth century CE), the oldest surviving Sanskrit exposition of Yoga as a soteriological system of thought from a...

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Main Author: Philipp André Maas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Alberta 2017-12-01
Series:History of Science in South Asia
Online Access:https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/hssa/index.php/hssa/article/view/32