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“Royalsoma”). The termsoma-rajais glossed as "kingsoma, the moon" inMonier-Williams' Sanskrit dictionary although the Rig Veda, in its hymns of praise to the drug, refers to
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Patanjali wrote all the knowledge of yoga he was getting from his Guru (Brahmarakshyasa) in the form of formulae on palm leaves. Basically, these formulae were the brief quote of the long explanation of verses that today is known assutras. ...
The truth is that nobody really knows much about Patanjali. We don’t even know exactly when the sage lived. Some practitioners believe he lived around the second century BCE and also wrote significant works onAyurveda(the ancient Indian system of medicine) andSanskritgrammar, making him somethin...
rehashes the tale of Milman Parry, who (as many Hatters doubtless know) “used textual analysis, anthropology, and field work to show that pre-literate or semi-literate peoples could, in fact, recite long poems.” I hadn’t known, however, about his mysterious demise in 1935: ...