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The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali

A Biography

by David Gordon White

A history of how Patanjali's text was composed, commented on, neglected and then revived in the colonial and modern periods. White argues that the work's present status as the scripture of global yoga is a comparatively recent development. Part of Princeton's Lives of Great Religious Books series.

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