ŚABDA-YOGA - An Analytical Textual Web Repository of Yoga Terms!

 ŚABDA-YOGA

An Analytical Textual Web Repository 

of Yoga Terms

 What is it? 

Blog created & Maintained by Jayaraman Mahadevan  

 




In Śabda-YogaYogic terminologies will be taken up and their -

a. Etymological analysis, 

b. Lexical descriptions and 

c. Textual occurrences in Yogic literature and their commentaries, as available, will be presented. And finally observations will be made on the references.

Three texts - Yogasūtra, Haṭha-yoga-pradīpikā and Bhagavad-gītā are consulted for textual occurrences portion.

Śabda-yoga is intended to help students, teachers, and professionals of Yoga to develop a sound grammatical, contextual, and thereby an authentic and immersive understanding of Yoga terminologies. 

 

Start here by visiting the List of words discussed So far!

Words analyzed thus far: 58


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