Jan E.M. HOUBEN
Directeur d’Études
Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite
Professor of South Asian History and Philology
École Pratique des Hautes Études
Sciences historiques et philologiques
54, rue Saint-Jacques
CS 20525 – 75005 Paris
johannes.houben@ephe.sorbonne.fr
https://ephe-sorbonne.academia.edu/JanEMHouben
Many thanks to all who replied to this query. So far there seems to be precious little material on lucid dreaming in Sanskrit, particularly in non-Buddhist sources. The reference to Patañjali is presumably to YS (or PYŚ, if one prefers) 1.38, but the connection looks slim to nonexistent to me; the same is true of Haṭha(yoga)pradīpikā 4.49, though I haven't explored any commentarial literature on that passage. The Hanneder/Mokṣopāya reference sounds more promising, and I'll try to follow it up. Eli Franco mentioned the term svapnāntika-jñāna, but not where it is found; I see that Monier-Williams (following Böhtlingk/Roth) gives the Vaiśeṣikasūtra as a source for svapnāntika -- an unlikely place for a discussion of lucid dreaming, I'd have thought, but worth looking up.
Thanks again,
Martin G.
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