Hathatattvakaumudi, Haṭhatattvakaumudī, Hathatattva-kaumudi: 4 definitions
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Yoga (school of philosophy)
Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions (yoga)Haṭhatattvakaumudī (हठतत्त्वकौमुदी) represents an 18th-century text on Haṭhayoga consisting of fifty-six chapters and approximately 1680 verses.—The Haṭhatattvakaumudī has five chapters on prāṇāyāma (9, 10, 12, 37–38), namely, the preliminary auxiliaries and rules of practice for prāṇāyāma, an explanation of the names, nature and characteristics of kumbhakas, breathing methods for quelling suffering, necessary rules for prāṇāyāma and an explanation of prāṇāyāma, which total more than 240 verses.
Source: ORA: Amanaska (king of all yogas): A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation by Jason BirchHaṭhatattvakaumudī (हठतत्त्वकौमुदी) is a large compendium on yoga of approximately two thousand and forty-eight verses, the majority of which are written in a higher register of Sanskrit than most yoga texts. The final colophon reveals that the author was a Brahmin by the name of Sundaradeva. [...] Like Śivānanda's Yogacintāmaṇi, the Haṭhatattvakaumudī appears to have been written for the more learned Brahmin, and it quotes from a similar range of sources, namely a variety of Yoga texts, Upaniṣads, Epics, Purāṇas, Dharmaśāstras and so on. Sundaradeva knew the work of Śivānanda and Kavīndrācārya.
Yoga is originally considered a branch of Hindu philosophy (astika), but both ancient and modern Yoga combine the physical, mental and spiritual. Yoga teaches various physical techniques also known as āsanas (postures), used for various purposes (eg., meditation, contemplation, relaxation).
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus CatalogorumHaṭhatattvakaumudī (हठतत्त्वकौमुदी) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—by Sundaradeva, son of Govinda. W. p. 196. This and the next following works treat of the Haṭhayoga, a violent and fanatical system of ascetical mortification of the body, in order to obtain supernatural power.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryHaṭhatattvakaumudī (हठतत्त्वकौमुदी):—[=haṭha-tattva-kaumudī] [from haṭha > haṭh] f. Name of [work]
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Partial matches: Kaumudi.
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