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G. W. Briggs, Gorakhnath and the Kanphata Yogis (Calcutta, 1938), p. 251-258, Dr.
Mohan Singh, Gorakhnatha and Mediaeval Hindu Mysticism (Lahore, 1937), p. 8 and
sig. See also below, in this book, note VIII, 3.
Numerous editions of Goragsasataka with commentaries (Goraksa Pad-dhati, etc.).
Edition and Translation of Satake, by Briggs, cited, p. 284-303. About Gorasasamhita,
see also Tucci, Animadversiones indicae, P. 134-136.
Hathayogapradipika: edition with commentary glosses Brahmanarjda and Srdhara
(Bombay, 1889, several editions) with German Translation
in the collection Sacred Books of the Hindus, the numeration of the verses sometimes
differs from one to another edition).
Gheranda samhita: ed. Vasak Bhuvanana Chandra (Calcutta, 1877), trans, English by
Chandra Vasu Rai Bahadur SIRS (Bombay, 1895, Allahabad, 1914, in the collection
Sacred Books of the Hindus, Adyar, 1933), trans, German by Richard Schmidt, Fakir and
Fakirtum in alten und und modem iridium (Berlin, 1908, 2nd ed, 1921).
Sim samhita: ed. and trans, into English by SIRS Chandra Bahadur Rai Vidya-nanda
(Lahore, 1884; REEDICION Allahabad, 1923, Sacred Books of the Hindus).
It were a great many paragraphs of these three treaties in Theos Bernard, Hatha Yoga
(Columbia UMV. Press, New York, 1944) and Alain Da-nielou, Yoga, the method of reintegration
(London, 1949). See also H. Zimmer, Lehren des Hathayoga. Lehrtexte
(Yoga, Erne International Zeitschrift, 1, p. 45-82).
For interpretaci6n, in medical terms, anatomy and physiology tantric, see, among others,
Major Basu, Hindu System of Medicine (pu-blished study at Guy's Hospital Gazette, 118,
reprinted in part in the introduction to Sioa-samhita, Allahabad, 1923). Also R. Roeseler,
Die Grundlagen der Psychologis-chen Yoga practice (Stuttgart, 1928), p. 39 et seq., Dr.
V. Relay, The Mysterious Kundalini (Bombay, 1929).
Scientific Observations on hathayoguis: Charles Lalbry and Therese Brosse, Documents
sur les Indes aux recueiUis "Yogis" par I'enregistrement simultane du Poulsen, of the
respiration et de I'electrocardiagramme (Presse Medicate, 83 TP, 14 Oct 1936). See also
Hubert Risch, Le Hatha Yoga, the somaire Expose mithode, quelques experiences and
applications Fisiològiques tner-peutiques (ThiseFaculte of Medicine of Paris (1951); Jean
Filliozat, Les limites des pouvoirs humains dans I'lnde (VHumain Limits, Carmélitaines
Etudes, 1953, p. 23-38) with additional references and footnotes.
Note VI, 9: Cakra, adhara, etc..
For the doctrine of the cakra: Satcakranirupana et Padukapancaka (ed. trans, into English
by Sir John Woodroffe, The Serpent Power, 3rd ed., Madras-London, 1941); Kulamava
Tantra (ed. Taranatha Vidyaratna, Tantrik Texts, Vol . V, London, 1917), chap. VIII;
Goraksasataka (Poona edition, reprinted by Briggs, Goraknath and the Kanphata Yogis,
Calcutta, Oxford, p. 284-304).
About adhara, see Briggs, op cit, p. 317 et seq. Description and interpretation of the cakra
in J. Evola, The Yoga della Potenza, P. 311 et seq. Recall that hesychasts tradition (see p.
71) distinguishes, according to some authors, four "centers" "concentration and prayer:
V>) middle frontal cranial brain (locahzado in the region between the eyebrows), 29
central bucco-laryngeal (co-sponding to the "most common thought: the intelligence that
is expressed in conversation, correspondence and in the early stages of prayer" A.
Bloom), 3 ') pectoral center (located at the top and mid-chest. "Stability of thought, and