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B.K.S. Iyengar's Light on Yoga, first published in English in 1966, is the practitioner manual that systematized and named over two hundred asanas for a modern international audience, many of them, including Bharadvajasana, not found under that name in any earlier hatha yoga text.
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Tier two: B.K.S. Iyengar's own 1966 practitioner manual, the text that systematized and named over two hundred asanas for a modern international audience. Its strength is that it is the founding practitioner record for that modern systematization, including asanas not found under that name in any earlier hatha yoga text; its limit is that it is a practitioner's own manual rather than independent historical scholarship on yoga's older textual tradition. NotesThe standard modern practitioner reference for asana names and technique, widely used in yoga teacher training, but a twentieth century systemization rather than an ancient text, so it is cited here for naming and technique, not for antiquity.
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AuthorB.K.S. Iyengar
PublisherGeorge Allen and Unwin
Publication Year1966
Source TypeBook (practitioner)
Claims Backed By This Source (18 claims)
This source backs 18 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 connected. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Articles, 6 claims: 2 well-attested, 2 connected, 2 general references.
- Asanas, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 2 general references.
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