Patanjali gathers the discipline of yoga into aphorisms on stilling the mind's turnings; the Yoga Sutras become the charter text of one of the six classical schools and, much later, the reference point of the global yoga movement.
Tagged: Hindu Smarta Tradition
The Event
- Date
- c. 200 BCE–200 CE (approximate)
- Also called
- Yoga Sutra
- Era
- Classical; Standard periodization of Hindu history
- Location
- Northern India; today Northern India
- Traditions
- Hinduism
- Streams
- Smarta Tradition
- Key figures
- Patanjali
- Key texts
- Yoga Sutras
Primary Sources
- Yoga Sutras
Secondary Sources
- Sharma, A Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy (Motilal Banarsidass, 1960)
- Flood, An Introduction to Hinduism (Cambridge, 1996)
Provenance: HIST-0307; confidence 0.85; accessed 2026-10-27.
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