yoga-paTTa

[DEVARAKONDA VENKATA NARAYANA SARMA]

At 04:11 AM 6/2/98 -0600, you wrote:
>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
>
>

If you can get hold of a calender depicting Lord Ayyappa you
can easily know what it is.

regards,

sarma.