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Yoga (school of philosophy)
Source: ORA: Amanaska (king of all yogas): A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation by Jason BirchReligious Observances are denoted by the Sanskrit term Vrata, according to the Amanaska Yoga treatise dealing with meditation, absorption, yogic powers and liberation.—Accordingly, as Īśvara says to Vāmadeva: “[...] Putting on ochre garments, carrying a skull, plucking out clumps of hair, maintaining non-vedic religious observances (pāṣaṇḍa-vrata), ashes, ascetic clothing and matted locks, behaving as if mad, [the ascetic practice of] nakedness, [studying] the Vedas, Tantras and so on and the meeting [of learned people] for [reciting] poetry in the assembly: All [this] is exertion for the sake of filling one's stomach and is not the cause of the highest good. [...]”.
Yoga is originally considered a branch of Hindu philosophy (astika), but both ancient and modern Yoga combine the physical, mental and spiritual. Yoga teaches various physical techniques also known as āsanas (postures), used for various purposes (eg., meditation, contemplation, relaxation).
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Full-text (+378): Vrata, Vrataruci, Niyama, Sauranakta, Nirvrata, Devatala, Nakta, Induvrata, Upayana, Pancasamskara, Acarashila, Dinakartavya, Punyahavacana, Dinakarya, Diksa, Vratasampadana, Niyamavat, Vratamimamsa, Imdropapata, Imdrabhisheka.
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The Skanda Purana (by G. V. Tagare)
Chapter 28 - Eminence of sitting awake on the twelfth day in worship of Viṣṇu < [Section 4 - Dvārakā-māhātmya]
Chapter 24 - Kṛṣṇa’s boon and the account of Candra Śarmā (Candraśarman) < [Section 4 - Dvārakā-māhātmya]
Chapter 26 - Worship of Hari on the twelfth day < [Section 4 - Dvārakā-māhātmya]
Warfare and Military System in Vedic Literature (by Rinki Deka)
Vaisheshika-sutra with Commentary (by Nandalal Sinha)
Sūtra 6.2.2 (Actions of which the motive is invisible) < [Chapter 2 - Of the Production of Dharma and A-dharma]
Taittiriya Upanishad Bhashya Vartika (by R. Balasubramanian)
Verse 3.18 < [Book 3 - Bhṛguvallī]
Satapatha-brahmana (by Julius Eggeling)
Kāṇḍa V, adhyāya 5, brāhmaṇa 3 < [Fifth Kāṇḍa]
Kāṇḍa IV, adhyāya 6, brāhmaṇa 4 < [Fourth Kāṇḍa]
Introduction to volume 5 (kāṇḍa 11-14) < [Introductions]
The Bhikkhus Rules (by Bhikkhu Ariyesako)
Uposatha Observance Days < [Appendix A]