Patanjali
Ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises · India · Academics
Patanjali is read about 373 times a day, in 70 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 21 October 2026
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Something wrong?The name on the Yoga Sutras - the text that became the architecture of classical yoga - and possibly on a Sanskrit grammar treatise and medical works, though whether one person or several authors across seven centuries used it remains an open historical question.
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Stamp of India - 2009 - Colnect 159916 - Maharshi Patanjali
2nd century BCE and 11th century CE, Double book manuscript, Patanjali Mahabhasya and Kaiyata Mahābhāṣyapradīpa, Sanskrit Hindu text India, now at University of Pennsylvania 01
2nd century BCE and 11th century CE, Double book manuscript, Patanjali Mahabhasya and Kaiyata Mahābhāṣyapradīpa, Sanskrit Hindu text India, now at University of Pennsylvania 02
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Bas-relief of Patanjali
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Patanjali PaintingIn their own words 10
, Yoga is the cessation of movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the seer's own form.
Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form,grace, strength, compactness, and the harness and brilliance of a diamond.
The Yoga of action, leading to union with the soul is fiery aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara.
About this person
Patanjali appears in ancient Indian records as the author of the Yoga Sutras, a foundational yoga text likely composed sometime between the 2nd century BCE and the 5th century CE. An author by the same name wrote the Mahābhāṣya, a major Sanskrit grammar work firmly dated to the 2nd century BCE, and may have written medical texts from centuries later. The language and subject matter differ sharply across these works, and no source before the 11th century linked them to a single person. Western scholars now generally hold that multiple authors shared the name, though traditional circles still venerate Patanjali as one figure - regarded as an avatar of Adi Sesha - behind yoga, grammar, and medicine alike.
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