Here is a female deity with the yogapatta.
Regards,
Palaniappan
From: Sudalaimuthu Palaniappant <palaniappa@aol.com>
Date: Thursday, October 3, 2019 at 11:25 AM
To: Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh@umich.edu>, Rupert Gethin <Rupert.Gethin@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] question about a Jaina practice
The deity Aiyappaṉ/Ayyappaṉ is usually shown with the yogapatta. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayyappan.
Regards,
Palaniappan
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Reply-To: Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh@umich.edu>
Date: Thursday, October 3, 2019 at 11:13 AM
To: Rupert Gethin <Rupert.Gethin@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] question about a Jaina practice
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@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
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On 3 Oct 2019, at 16:39, Philipp Maas via INDOLOGY <indology@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.
Best wishes,
Philipp
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Am Do., 3. Okt. 2019 um 16:10 Uhr schrieb Tieken, H.J.H. via INDOLOGY <indology@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.
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