Patanjali

The Yoga Institute
Mumbai, India

Patanjali lived earlier than 2nd century BC. Near Taxila. He compiled the existing material on Yoga and systematized it into ‘Yoga sutra’. He also composed the ‘Mahabhasya’, a treatise on Panini’s grammar and the present form of ‘Carak Pamhita’, the text of Ayurveda.

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Title: Patanjali
Subject Keywords: yoga history, museum
Lifetime: circa 2nd century BC

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