Traditional attribution
Yoga Yājñavalkya
योगयाज्ञवल्क्य (Yogayājñavalkya)
A yoga treatise in twelve chapters and some five hundred verses in which Yājñavalkya teaches Gārgī the eight-limbed yoga: ten restraints and ten observances, postures, breath control, withdrawal of the senses, concentration, meditation and absorption, with a physiology of subtle channels (nāḍī) and vital winds. It influenced yoga practice before haṭha yoga and was revived in the twentieth century by T. Krishnamacharya and his students.
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Authorship note
A dialogue between Yājñavalkya and Gārgī composed many centuries after the Upaniṣadic figure. Its date is disputed: Divanji (1954) placed it between the second century BCE and the fourth century CE; Mohan, before the fourth century; David Gordon White, between the tenth and twelfth centuries. Wujastyk points to palm-leaf manuscripts from the late ninth or early tenth century and from 1024.
Editions and translations
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English
Yoga Yājñavalkya
Svastha Yoga, 2013
Translation: A. G. Mohan y Ganesh Mohan
ISBN 9789810716486
2.ª ed.; la 1.ª, Ganesh & Co., 2000: ISBN 9788185988153.
Yajnavalkya
Yogayājñavalkya Saṃhitā: The Yoga Treatise of Yājñavalkya
The Conscious LibraryYogayājñavalkya Saṃhitā: The Yoga Treatise of Yājñavalkya
Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (Vignesha Printers), 2000
Translation: T. K. V. Desikachar
ISBN 9788187847007
Atribución del traductor según la tradición editorial del Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram; no figura en el registro de Open Library.
Yajnavalkya
Yoga-Yājñavalkya: A Treatise on Yoga as Taught by Yogī Yājñavalkya
The Conscious LibraryYoga-Yājñavalkya: A Treatise on Yoga as Taught by Yogī Yājñavalkya
Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1954
Translation: P. C. Divanji
Edición crítica; derechos vigentes.
Français
Yogayājñavalkyam: corps et âme, le yoga selon Yājñavalkya
Gallimard, 2000
Translation: Philippe Geenens
ISBN 9782070759965
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Yajnavalkya
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Other works by Yajnavalkya
- Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad (The Great Forest Upaniṣad) · 650
- Yājñavalkya-kāṇḍa (Muni-kāṇḍa): the debate at Janaka's court and the teachings to the king · 650
- The dialogue with Maitreyī · 650
- Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa (The Brāhmaṇa of a Hundred Paths) · 750
- Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā (White Yajurveda) · 800
- Yājñavalkya Smṛti (Yājñavalkya's Treatise on Dharma) · 400
- Bṛhad Yogi Yājñavalkya Smṛti
- Jābāla Upaniṣad and Yājñavalkya Upaniṣad (Upaniṣads of renunciation)
- The dialogue of Yājñavalkya and Janaka in the Mahābhārata · 100
- Vṛddha-Yājñavalkya and Bṛhad-Yājñavalkya (fragments)
- Yājñavalkya Śikṣā (treatise on phonetics)
Sources
- Wikipedia (en inglés), «Yoga Yajnavalkya» y «Yajnavalkya Smriti» (resumen de las dataciones de Divanji, Mohan, White, Wujastyk y Olivelle), consultadas el 26 de octubre de 2026.
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