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Yoga (school of philosophy)

Source: ORA: Amanaska (king of all yogas): A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation by Jason Birch

Svayambodha (स्वयम्बोध) is another name for the Amanaska Yoga treatise dealing with topics as absorption (laya), yogic powers (siddhi) and liberation, presented in the form of a dialogue between Īśvara and Vāmadeva.—The Madras University's New Catalogus Catalogorum records almost fifty manuscripts of this text under the entry Amanaska, and it adds that the text is also known by the names of Amanaskakalpa, Amanaskayoga, Amanaskavivaraṇa, Ātmabodha or Svayambodha.

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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).

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

svayambōdha (स्वयंबोध).—m S Knowledge of self, i. e. of self, spirit, or the universe-deity-cause--these three being one. Ex. brahmādika tighē jaṇa || nityamukta jāṇa svayambōdhēṃ ||.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

1) Svayaṃbodha (स्वयंबोध) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—vedānta. Io. 1725. B. 4, 108 (īśvarapraṇīta). Sūcīpattra. 44.

2) Svayaṃbodha (स्वयंबोध):—vedānta. The same as Amanaskayoga.

3) Svayaṃbodha (स्वयंबोध):—yoga. As p. 237.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Svayambodha (स्वयम्बोध):—[=svayam-bodha] [from svayam > sva] m. Name of a Vedānta [work]

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Svayam, Bodha.

Full-text: Amanaskayoga, Amanaskakalpa, Layayoga, Amanaskavivarana.

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