TheHaṭha Ratnāvalī is aHaṭha yoga text written in the 17th century by Srinivasa. It is one of the first texts to name 84asanas, earlier texts having claimed as many without naming them. It describes 36 asanas.
TheHaṭha Ratnāvalī is aHaṭha yoga text written in the 17th century by Srinivasa.[1] It states (1.17-18) thatasanas,breath retentions, andseals assist in Haṭha yoga.[2] It mentions 8 purifications (shatkarmas), criticising theHatha Yoga Pradipika for only describing 6 of these.[3]
It is one of the earliest texts (the other being the unpublishedYogacintāmaṇi) actually to name 84 asanas,[4] earlier manuscripts having simply claimed that 84[a] or 8,400,000 asanas existed.[6] The 84asanas listed (HR 3.7-20[7]) include several variations of Padmasana and Mayurasana,Gomukhasana,Bhairavasana,Matsyendrasana,Kurmasana,Kraunchasana, Mandukasana,Yoganidrasana, and many names now not in wide usage; it provides descriptions of 36 of these asanas.[8]
this number has symbolic significance. S. Dasgupta, inObscure Religious Cults (1946), cites numerous instances of variations on eighty-four in Indian literature that stress its 'purely mystical nature'; ... Gudrun Buhnemann, in her comprehensiveEighty-Four Asanas in Yoga, notes that the number 'signifies completeness, and in some cases, sacredness. ... John Campbell Oman, inThe Mystics, Ascetics, and Saints of India (1905) ... seven ... classical planets in Indian astrology ... and twelve, the number of signs of the zodiac. ... Matthew Kapstein gives .. a numerological point of view ... 3+4=7 ... 3x4=12 ...
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