Patanjali [Einsiedler-Asket] - Mischwesen-Weltschlange Shesha, sehr frühes buddhistisches Manuskript, 13.Jhd. - 1280

Very early Buddhist manuscript
Tibetan monks
Medieval monastery

Patanjali Sutra Hermit Ascetic
Hybrid creature--world serpent Shesha, lower body of a snake and upper body as a man

Handwriting on 9 sheets = 18 pages
Sutra & Sanskrit, Theravada Buddhism

Tibetan monastery, 13th century, around 1280
Approximately 750 year old manuscript

Patanjali (Sanskrit पतञ्जलि) was an Indian scholar and the author of the Yoga Sutra.

Nothing is known about the life of Patanjali. He is believed to have lived between the 2nd century B. C. BC and the 4th century AD.
According to legend, his mother was Gonika (Skt. Goṇikā) , which is why he is also called Gonardiya or Gonikaputra.
She was an ascetic who lived as a hermit.
Since she, as a woman, could not find any students to pass on her knowledge, she prayed to the sun god Surya.
Then a little snake fell from heaven into her hands, which turned into a boy and asked to be her student. Gonika therefore gave him the name Patanjali (Skt. pat- “flying”, “falling down”; añjali “greeting and praying posture”) .
An alternative legend says that it fell into the hands of the grammarian Panini.
He is considered an incarnation of the world serpent Shesha and is depicted in Indian art as a hybrid creature, with his lower body down to his hips in the shape of a coiled snake, the upper body is that of a man with his hands in the posture of greeting and prayer (Skt. añjalimudrā) . folded.
Above his head, a multi-headed snake fanned out like an umbrella.

Patanjali is credited as the author of the Yoga Sutra, which is still considered the standard work of philosophical yoga today. Since this was already commented on by Vyasa in the Yogasutrabhasya in the 5th century, his lifetime must have been before the 5th century. Vyasa's commentary was in turn commented on by Shankara (788–820) , one of the most important Indian scholars. The Yoga Sutra was first translated into Arabic by the Islamic polymath al-Biruni (973–1048) , and today there are numerous translations in various languages.

Patanjali is also considered the author of the Mahabhasya (Skt. Mahābhāṣya "great commentary") , a commentary on Panini's Astadhyayi grammar. Then he would have to go to the middle of the 2nd century BC. Be dated.

“yogena cittasya padena vācāṃ malaṃ śarīrasya ca vaidyakena
yo‘pākarot-taṃ pravaraṃ munīnāṃ patañjaliṃ prāñjalir-ānato‘smi

“With folded hands I bow to Patañjali, the excellent wild ascetic,
who eradicated the impurity of the mind through yoga, of language through grammar, of the body through medicine. ”

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