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Lie face down. Put the toes pointing downwards on the ground, plant the palms of the hands at the crown of the head, raise the bottom and look at the navel. Bring the nose to the ground and take it up to the hands. Do this over and over again. This is the elephant pose
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and then to climb a rope using only the hands. It states that the aim of the practice of asanas is to attain bodily strength (śārīradārḍhya) and to prepare the yogin for the practice of the purifications
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The manuscript gives instructions for ten different rope poses. It is one of the few surviving texts which contain rope poses (the
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such as Gajāsana, elephant pose, which demand repeated movements, in the case of Gajāsana repetitions of
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The manuscript describes the dynamic asanas with instructions to the yogi, for instance:
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also used rope poses (in the 20th century), attributing them to a "lost" document, the
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and survives in a single manuscript. It includes unusual elements such as rope poses.
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in the 18th century, attributed to Kapāla Kuraṇṭaka; it is the only known work before
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is an 18th-century manuscript, written by Kapāla Kurantaka, that describes elaborate
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The Proliferation of Asana-s in Late-Medieval Yoga Texts
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Index

Haṭha yoga
Sanskrit
modern yoga
sequences of asanas
sequences of asanas
Haṭha yoga
British Raj
modern yoga
martial arts
asanas
Adho Mukha Svanasana
Padmasana
satkarmas

dynamic sequences
asanas
Adho Mukha Svanasana
Sritattvanidhi
Krishnamacharya
Yoga Kurunta
Birch 2018
Mallinson & Singleton 2017


Birch 2018
Birch 2018
Mallinson & Singleton 2017
Mallinson & Singleton 2017
Singleton 2010
Bühnemann 2007

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