CONTENTS Contents by Tradition vii Contents by Country ix Contributors xi Introduction • David Gordon White 1 Note for Instructors • David Gordon White 24 Foundational Yoga Texts 29 1. The Path to Liberation through Yogic Mindfulness in Early Āyurveda • Dominik Wujastyk 31 2. A Prescription for Yoga and Power in the Mahābhārata • James L. Fitzgerald 43 3. Yoga Practices in the Bhagavadgītā • Angelika Malinar 58 4. Pātañjala Yoga in Practice • Gerald James Larson 73 5. Yoga in the Yoga Upanisads: Disciplines of the Mystical OM Sound • Jeffrey Clark Ruff 97 6. The Sevenfold Yoga of the Yogavāsistha • Christopher Key Chapple 117 7. A Fourteenth-Century Persian Account of Breath Control and • Meditation Carl W. Ernst 133 Yoga in Jain, Buddhist, and Hindu Tantric Traditions 141 8. A Digambara Jain Description of the Yogic Path to • Deliverance Paul Dundas 143 • 9. Saraha’s Queen Dohās Roger R. Jackson 162 • 10. The Questions and Answers of Vajrasattva Jacob P. Dalton 185 11. The Six-Phased Yoga of the Abbreviated Wheel of Time Tantra n • (Laghukālacakratantra) according to Vajrapā i Vesna A. Wallace 204 12. Eroticism and Cosmic Transformation as Yoga: The Ātmatattva sn • of the Vai ava Sahajiyās of Bengal Glen Alexander Hayes 223 White.indb 5 8/18/2011 7:11:21 AM vi C O ntents m 13. TheT ransport of the Ha sas: A Śākta Rāsalīlā as Rājayoga in Eighteenth-Century Benares • Somadeva Vasudeva 242 Yoga of the Nāth Yogīs 255 14. The Original Goraksaśataka • James Mallinson 257 T 15. Nāth Yogīs, Akbar, and the “Bālnāth illā” • William R. Pinch 273 16. Yogic Language in Village Performance: Hymns of the Householder Nāths • Ann Grodzins Gold and Daniel Gold 289 Yoga in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Periods 307 17. The Yoga System of the Josmanīs • Sthaneshwar Timalsina 309 m 18. Songs to the Highest God (Īśvara) of Sā khya-Yoga • Knut A. Jacobsen 325 19. Yoga Makaranda of T. Krishnamacharya • Mark Singleton, M. Narasimhan, and M. A. Jayashree 337 20. Theos Bernard and the Early Days of Tantric Yoga in America • Paul G. Hackett 353 21. Universalist and Missionary Jainism: Jain Yoga of the Terāpanthī Tradition • Olle Qvarnström and Jason Birch 365 Glossary of Foreign Terms 383 Index 389 White.indb 6 8/18/2011 7:11:21 AM.