Haṭhayoga-pradīpikā
Kāśī (Varanasi) · 1450
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Svātmārāma
Svātmārāma
1450 CE
c. 15th c. CE (author of the Haṭha-yoga-pradīpikā); approximate
Svātmārāma (Svātmārāma Yogīndra) compiled the Haṭha-yoga-pradīpikā ('Light on Haṭha Yoga'), the best-known and most widely followed classical text of Haṭha Yoga, usually dated to about the 15th century CE. Drawing on earlier Nātha and tantric yoga sources, it systematizes the physical and energetic disciplines — āsanas, prāṇāyāma, bandhas, mudrās, and the awakening of kuṇḍalinī — presenting them as a ladder (haṭha) leading ultimately to the meditative absorption of rāja-yoga. Little is known of Svātmārāma himself beyond his self-presentation in the text as a transmitter of the Nātha lineage.
The world in their lifetime
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Svātmārāma’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.