The ''Haṭha Ratnāvalī'' is a Haṭha yoga text written in the 17th century by Srinivasa. It is one of the first texts to name 84

asana An asana is a body posture, originally and still a general term for a sitting meditation pose,Verse 46, chapter II, "Patanjali Yoga sutras" by Swami Prabhavananda, published by the Sri Ramakrishna Math p. 111 and later extended in hatha yoga ...

s, earlier texts having claimed as many without naming them. It describes 36 asanas.

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The ''Haṭha Ratnāvalī'' is a Haṭha yoga text written in the 17th century by Srinivasa. It states (1.17-18) that

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assist in Haṭha yoga. It mentions 8 purifications (

shatkarma The shatkarmas (Sanskrit: षटकर्म ''ṣaṭkarma'', literally ''six actions''), also known as shatkriyas,Hatha Yoga Pradipika The ''Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā'' ( or Light on Hatha Yoga) is a classic fifteenth-century Sanskrit manual on haṭha yoga, written by Svātmārāma, who connects the teaching's lineage to Matsyendranath of the Nathas. It is among the most inf ...

'' for only describing 6 of these. It is one of the earliest texts (the other being the unpublished ''

Yogacintāmaṇi The ''Yogacintamani'' is an early 17th-century hatha yoga text, covering the eight auxiliaries of yoga. The asana section in all the manuscripts describes 34 asanas, while variations in some manuscripts add another 84, mentioning most of the non-st ...

'') actually to name 84 asanas, earlier manuscripts having simply claimed that 84 or 8,400,000 asanas existed. The 84

s listed (HR 3.7-20) include several variations of Padmasana and Mayurasana, Gomukhasana,

Bhairavasana Bhairavasana ( sa, भैरवासन) or formidable pose, sometimes called Supta Bhairavasana (सुप्त भैरवासन), is a reclining asana in hatha yoga; the variation Kala Bhairavasana (काला भैरवासन) has ...

, Matsyendrasana, Kurmasana,

Kraunchasana Krauñcāsana (Sanskrit: क्रौञ्चासन) or Heron pose, also written Krounchasana, is a sitting asana in modern yoga as exercise. Etymology and origins The name comes from the Sanskrit words ''Kraunch'' (क्रौञ्च) m ...

, Mandukasana,

Yoganidrasana Yoganidrasana, ( sa, योगनिद्रासन) or Yogic Sleep Pose is a reclining forward-bending asana in modern yoga as exercise. It is sometimes called Supta Garbhasana (Reclining Embryo Pose). The name Dvi Pada Sirsasana is given to t ...

, and many names now not in wide usage; it provides descriptions of 36 of these asanas.

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