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Patanjali Food and Herbal Park in Haridwar is the company's main production facility. With a production capacity of ₹ 35,000 crore (equivalent to ₹ 470 billion or US$5.4 billion in 2023), it is expanding to a capacity of ₹ 60,000 crore (equivalent to ₹ 860 billion or US$10 billion in 2023) through new production units in Noida, Nagpur, and Indore.
[5] [6] In December 2019, Patanjali Ayurved acquired the bankrupt Ruchi Soya for ₹ 4,350 crore. [7] [8] In June 2021, Ruchi Soya acquired the biscuits and noodles business of Patanjali for ₹ 60 crore. [9] It acquired the food business of Patanjali Ayurved for around ₹ 690 crore in May 2022. [10] The company changed its name to Patanjali ...
Withania somnifera, known commonly as ashwagandha, [2] [3] [4] is an evergreen shrub in the Solanaceae or nightshade family that grows in India, Nepal, the Middle East, and parts of Africa. Several other species in the genus Withania are morphologically similar. [ 3 ]
Within the genus Withania, W. somnifera (Ashwagandha) and W. coagulans (Paneer doddi/Ashutosh booti) are economically significant, and are cultivated in several regions for their use in Ayurveda. [3] It is claimed to help control diabetes. [4] The berries contain a rennet-like protease that can be used to clot milk for cheese production.
Patanjali is also the reputed author of a medical text called Patanjalah, also called Patanjala or Patanjalatantra. [4] [62] This text is quoted in many yoga and health-related Indian texts. Patanjali is called a medical authority in a number of Sanskrit texts such as Yogaratnakara, Yogaratnasamuccaya, Padarthavijnana, Cakradatta bhasya. [4]
Samyama is practiced consistently by yogis of some yoga meditation systems and schools, from simple meditation alone to week-long meditation retreats or more. Described in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, it comprises the three most mentally focusing "limbs" of Patanjali's Eight-limbed ("Astanga") in his Yoga Sutras.
In the Muktika Upanishad (slokas 1.18–29), kaivalya, as explained by Rama to Hanuman, is the most superior form of moksha and the essence of all Upanishads—higher than the four types of mukti (namely: sālokya, sāmīpya, sārūpya, & sāyujya). [1]
The 10th–11th century Vimanarcanakalpa is the first manuscript to describe a non-seated asana, in the form of Mayurasana (peacock) – a balancing pose. Such poses appear, according to the scholar James Mallinson , to have been created outside Shaivism , the home of the Nath yoga tradition, and to have been associated with asceticism ; they ...