biography
pronunciation:
[patanjalee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (2nd-c BC)
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| biography:
| A pseudonym attributed to the author (or one of the authors) of the Yoga system of Hindu philosophy. The four books of the Yoga Sutra, extant versions dating from the 3rd-c AD but drawing on earlier traditions, expound the moral and physical disciplines necessary for attaining absolute freedom of the self. |
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