The ''Haṭha Ratnāvalī'' is a

Haṭha yoga Hatha yoga (; Sanskrit हठयोग, International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, IAST: ''haṭhayoga'') is a branch of yoga that uses physical techniques to try to preserve and channel vital force or energy. The Sanskrit word ह� ...

text written in the 17th century by Srinivasa. It is one of the first texts to name 84

asana An āsana (Sanskrit: आसन) 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 late ...

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

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The ''Haṭha Ratnāvalī'' is a

text written in the 17th century by Srinivasa. It states (1.17-18) that

s, breath retentions, and seals assist in Haṭha yoga. It mentions 8 purifications ( shatkarmas), criticising the ''

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 infl ...

'' for only describing 6 of these. It is one of the earliest texts (the other being the unpublished '' Yogacintāmaṇi'') actually to name 84 asanas, earlier manuscripts having simply claimed that 84 or 8,400,000 asanas existed.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, Matsyendrasana, Kurmasana, Kraunchasana, Mandukasana, Yoganidrasana, and many names now not in wide usage; it provides descriptions of 36 of these asanas.

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