yoga-paTTa

Rolf Heiner Koch roheko at MSN.COM
Tue Jun 2 12:45:36 UTC 1998


To a great part the stories of Sanchi and Bharhut
are already identified: they reflect certain
Jatakas and similar Buddhist tales. There you will
find the literal description of what you call
yoga-straps.
RoHeKo
roheko at msn.com
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Michael Rabe <mrabe at ARTIC.EDU>
An: INDOLOGY at LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK
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Datum: Dienstag, 2. Juni 1998 11:07
Betreff: yoga-paTTa


>Friends,
>
>A fellow-instructor at The School of the Art
Institute of Chicago--someone
>who has been practicing ashtangi-yoga far longer
than Madonna, I might
>add--is currently researching the iconography of
yoga-straps in Indian art
>and contemporary meditational practice.  Though I
am able to direct him to
>numerous visual occurences instances of the motif
[from the North torana at
>Sanchi to the 16th c.Caurapanchashika mss.
illuminations] neither of us
>have been able to locate any textual references
to this accouterment.
>
>Here is Monier-Williams's citation:
yoga-paTTa[ka] (HarSa-carita, PadmaP):
>m. the cloth thrown over the back and knees of a
devotee during meditation.
>
>And the obvious query: if any one can direct us
to a chapter and verse in
>either cited work, or elsewhere, we'd be much
obliged.
>
>Much Thanks,
>Michael Rabe
>Assoc. Prof. of Art History
>Saint Xavier University
>&
>The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
>


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