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The Siva Samhita

by Translated In To English Rai Bahadur Srisa Chandra Vasu
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9788121223751
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
  • Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House
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  • Pages: 93
  • Original Price: INR 600.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 370 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): N/A

This series is the result of the most impressive publishing endeavours of the 20th century. The work was devised along new lines, a simple system envisaged by the Panini office, and Basu, B.D., and its contributors included some of the leading scholars of the day. It brings together a coherent method to the compilation of Hindu scriptures. This is a Sanskrit text on yoga enumerating its concepts and cognate principles. In the five chapters are discussed and elaborated the essentials necessary for the practice of yoga, ways of attaining siddhi, the philosophy of existence, importance of yoga, the spirit, maya or illusion, the microcosm, the functions of the body, the principles of pranayama or breathing, asanas or postures, the Kundalini and its awakening, the various forms of yoga, etc.

Sris Chandra Basu or Srish Chandra Vasu (1861 – 1918) was an Indian Sanskrit scholar, judge, writer and translator of numerous works. He translated major yoga texts such as the Yogaśāstra, the Gheranda Samhita, and the Siva Samhita into English, several through his own publishing setup called the Panini office in Allahabad. He was educated at the Lahore Mission School where his father had served as headmaster. He received a scholarship to study at the Lahore Government College and passed the First Arts Examination with Arabic as his second language. In order to gain some knowledge of science he attended lectures at the Lahore Medical College. He passed his BA in 1881 and gave a lecture on evolution at the Arya Samaj which was the first introduction to the subject in Hindi and was a sensation in Lahore at the time, with an essay in the Arya of Lahore (founded by Ratan Chand Bary in 1882) carrying his paper on Theory of Evolution from an Aryan point of view (1882) which was noticed by Madame Blavatsky in her note in the The Theosophist (March, 1882).

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