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2. List of asanas - Wikipedia

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   The traditional number of asanas is the symbolic 84, but different texts identify different selections, sometimes listing their names without describing them. [3] [a] Some names have been given to different asanas over the centuries, and some asanas have been known by a variety of names, making tracing and the assignment of dates difficult. [5]

3. Haṭha Ratnāvalī - Wikipedia

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   It mentions 8 purifications , criticising the Hatha Yoga Pradipika for only describing 6 of these. [3] It is one of the earliest texts (the other being the unpublished Yogacintāmaṇi) actually to name 84 asanas, [4] earlier manuscripts having simply claimed that 84 [a] or 8,400,000 asanas existed. [6]

4. Asana - Wikipedia

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   Asanas are also called yoga poses or yoga postures in English. The 10th or 11th century Goraksha Sataka and the 15th century Hatha Yoga Pradipika identify 84 asanas; the 17th century Hatha Ratnavali provides a different list of 84 asanas, describing some of them.

5. Joga Pradīpikā - Wikipedia

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   The Joga Pradīpikā conflates the mudrās with asanas by describing the mahāmudrā as one of its 84 asanas. Like other late texts, it describes a relatively large number of mudrās, 24 in all. [7] On meditation, the text reworks the Bhagavata Purana's meditation of the goddess Sītā and the god Rāma. [11]

6. Shiva Samhita - Wikipedia

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   The Shiva Samhita talks about the complex yoga physiology and names 84 different asanas. [3] It teaches only four of the asanas: siddhasana , padmasana , paschimottanasana , and svastikasana . Mallinson states that it is the first text to describe paschimottanasana, a pose resembling dandasana as taught in the Patanjalayayogashastra , but with ...

7. Hatha yoga - Wikipedia

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   Yogacintamani: an early 17th-century text on the eight auxiliaries of yoga; the asana section describes 34 asanas, and variant manuscripts add another 84, mentioning most of the non-standing asanas used in modern yoga. [30]