[INDOLOGY] question about a Jaina practice

[Dominik Wujastyk]

See the lovely illustration in the Wellcome *Saṃpuṭodbhavatantra* MS:

   - https://wellcomecollection.org/works/c48az6ky

For correct metadata, see the entry in my *Handlist* of 1985, pages 153-154
<https://archive.org/details/b20456645M001/page/153>.

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Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
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On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 09:13, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Is there any pictorial description/representation of these assisting
> devices in iconography or Jain/Buddhist/Hindu Yoga practice?
>
> Madhav M. Deshpande
> Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
> Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
>
> [Residence: Campbell, California, USA]
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 8:52 AM Rupert Gethin via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Since it is appears not to be mentioned in the article cited by Lubomir
>> or in Philipp’s article (forgive me if I have missed it), it is perhaps
>> worth adding that this kind of strap is also mentioned in Pali sources
>> where it is called āyogapaṭṭa. In the Visuddhimagga Buddhaghosa describes
>> the  ’sitter’s practice’ (nesajjikaṅga), the last in the list of 13 ascetic
>> practices, as follows:
>>
>> 'This has three grades too. Herein, one who is strict is not allowed a
>> back-rest or cloth band or binding-strap (āyogapaṭṭa). The medium one is
>> allowed any one of these three. The mild one is allowed a back-rest, a
>> cloth band, a binding-strap, a cushion, a “five-limb” and a “seven-limb"
>> [chair].’ (After Ñāṇamoli, Path of Purification, II.74)
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Rupert
>> --
>> *Rupert Gethin*
>>
>> University of Bristol
>> Department of Religion and Theology
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>> Bristol BS8 1TB, UK
>>
>> Email: Rupert.Gethin at bristol.ac.uk <Rupert.Gethin at bristol.ac.uk>
>>
>> On 3 Oct 2019, at 16:39, Philipp Maas via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Herman,
>> Further textual references to the use of a yoga strap in yoga literature
>> can be found on p. 71 of my article "'Sthirasukham Āsanam': Posture and
>> Performance in Classical Yoga and Beyond", which you find published in
>> open-access here
>> <https://www.academia.edu/32024344/_Sthirasukham_%C4%80sanam_Posture_and_Performance_in_Classical_Yoga_and_Beyond>
>> .
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Philipp
>> __________________________
>>
>> Dr. Philipp A. Maas
>> Research Associate
>> Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften
>> Universität Leipzig
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>> Am Do., 3. Okt. 2019 um 16:10 Uhr schrieb Tieken, H.J.H. via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info>:
>>
>>> Dear List members,
>>>
>>> Jaina monks, or their followers, are often depicted sitting with a strap
>>> going around their bodies and legs. (a few years ago I saw this contraption
>>> in a posh interior decorating shop in Leiden as an alternative chair!)
>>> Could anyone tell me if this strap, or sitting supported by this strap, had
>>> a (Sanskrit, MIA or NIA) name. By the way, it is not a particular Jaina
>>> practice. If I remember well, the strap can also be seen on, for instance,
>>> the Borobudur.
>>>
>>> Herman
>>>
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