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