The English term "yoke" is connected with the word yoga, which literally means "act of joining." Similarly to how ...

  One of the sitting poses (asana) listed in comments to the Yoga Sutras; it is also one of the sitting postures in Hindu iconography in whi...

Svastikasana is a yoga pose. (“svastika-posture”) One of the sitting poses (asana) mentioned in the Yoga Sutras' commentaries. The r...

(“study”) Because religious writings were usually studied by reciting them, the term "study" connotes "oral recitation....

Sanskrit grammarian and author of the Mahabhashya ("Great Commentary") on Panini's Ashtadhyayi (second century B.C.E.). Pa...

    (“bedstead”) One of the positions (asanas) mentioned in the Yoga Sutras comments, in which the individual lies down with their arms sp...