Goobi - ba0d8 - 2020-08-02 18:16:45+0000
Goobi
Yogi seated in a position (nashbad), from the Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat).
This book consists of ten chapters explaining the philosophy of hatha yoga, with paintings showing twenty-one different positions (asanas). Written in Persian, the work was composed in Gujarat c. 1550 by Muhammad Ghwath Gwaliori (d. 1562), a prominent Sufi, drawing from an earlier Arabic version (Pool of life, or Hawd al-hayat), of an original Sanskrit text (Amrita Kunda, now lost). This manuscript was produced in early seventeenth-century Mughal India: it is one of three yoga-related texts commissioned for prince Selim (the future Mughal emperor, Jahangir).
Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with painting (on verso), from the Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat), by Muhammad Ghwath Gwaliori (d. 1562), unsigned, Allahabad, India, c. 1600-1604. This is one of twelve folios now detached from its codex (Chester Beatty In 16).
Yogi seated in a position (nashbad), from the Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat)
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Indian collection
Persian (language)
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Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Nasta'liq script
1600-1604
1600
1604
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228 mm x 139 mm (height x width)
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